---
name: "Benalish Hero"
mana_cost: "{W}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Creature — Human Soldier"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["Banding"]
set: "FBB"
set_name: "Foreign Black Border"
collector_number: "4"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Douglas Shuler"
oracle_id: "4c81cfb7-8765-4e28-ae33-4287fa9a86cc"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/benalish-hero-fbb"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Benalish Hero
- **Mana Cost:** `{W}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Soldier
- **Power/Toughness:** 1/1
- **Keywords:** Banding

## Oracle Text
Banding (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 blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Benalish Infantry](/printing/benalish-infantry-wth.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
2. [Kjeldoran Warrior](/printing/kjeldoran-warrior-ice.md) — Creature — Human Warrior
3. [Shield Bearer](/printing/shield-bearer-ice.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
4. [Kjeldoran Escort](/printing/kjeldoran-escort-all.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
5. [Icatian Phalanx](/printing/icatian-phalanx-fem.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
6. [Kjeldoran Knight](/printing/kjeldoran-knight-ice.md) — Creature — Human Knight

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Foreign Black Border (FBB) #4
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Douglas Shuler
- **Total Printings:** 37 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`