---
name: "Battering Ram"
mana_cost: "{2}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Artifact Creature — Construct"
colors: []
color_identity: []
keywords: []
set: "ITP"
set_name: "Introductory Two-Player Set"
collector_number: "48"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Jeff A. Menges"
oracle_id: "e7b91fba-8d96-4040-95e8-f0023b65c497"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/battering-ram-itp"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Battering Ram
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Artifact Creature — Construct
- **Power/Toughness:** 1/1

## Oracle Text
At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Wall of Caltrops](/printing/wall-of-caltrops-leg.md) — Creature — Wall
2. [Fortified Area](/printing/fortified-area-4ed.md) — Enchantment
3. [Wall of Shields](/printing/wall-of-shields-ice.md) — Artifact Creature — Wall
4. [Baton of Morale](/printing/baton-of-morale-ice.md) — Artifact
5. [Mishra's War Machine](/printing/mishras-war-machine-4ed.md) — Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
6. [Kjeldoran Warrior](/printing/kjeldoran-warrior-ice.md) — Creature — Human Warrior

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Introductory Two-Player Set (ITP) #48
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Jeff A. Menges
- **Total Printings:** 31 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `not_legal`