---
name: "Icatian Phalanx"
mana_cost: "{4}{W}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Creature — Human Soldier"
colors: []
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["Banding"]
set: "ME2"
set_name: "Masters Edition II"
collector_number: "16"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Kaja Foglio"
oracle_id: "a1160b8d-c4e4-4869-b7a5-c6a826eb1ba4"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/icatian-phalanx-me2"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Icatian Phalanx
- **Mana Cost:** `{4}{W}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Soldier
- **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. [Kjeldoran Phalanx](/printing/kjeldoran-phalanx-ice.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
2. [Benalish Hero](/printing/benalish-hero-me1.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
3. [Benalish Infantry](/printing/benalish-infantry-wth.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
4. [Kjeldoran Escort](/printing/kjeldoran-escort-all.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
5. [Kjeldoran Warrior](/printing/kjeldoran-warrior-ice.md) — Creature — Human Warrior
6. [Shield Bearer](/printing/shield-bearer-me2.md) — Creature — Human Soldier

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Masters Edition II (ME2) #16
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Kaja Foglio

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2008-10-01)* Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
- *(2008-10-01)* If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a "band." The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers' damage is assigned.
- *(2008-10-01)* A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
- *(2009-10-01)* If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.