---
name: "Battering Ram"
mana_cost: "{2}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Artifact Creature — Construct"
colors: []
color_identity: []
keywords: []
set: "RQS"
set_name: "Rivals Quick Start Set"
collector_number: "47"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Jeff A. Menges"
oracle_id: "e7b91fba-8d96-4040-95e8-f0023b65c497"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/battering-ram-rqs"
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.

> *By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Forest](/printing/forest-blb.md) — Basic Land — Forest
2. [Fury Sliver](/printing/fury-sliver-tsp.md) — Creature — Sliver
3. [Kor Outfitter](/printing/kor-outfitter-zen.md) — Creature — Kor Soldier
4. [Spirit](/printing/spirit-tmm2.md) — Token Creature — Spirit
5. [Siren Lookout](/printing/siren-lookout-xln.md) — Creature — Siren Pirate
6. [Web](/printing/web-3ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Rivals Quick Start Set (RQS) #47
- **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`