Pikemen

Card Rules and Details

Card Type: Creature — Human Soldier

Mana Cost: {1}{W}

Power and Toughness: 1/1

Oracle Rules Text: First strike; 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.)

Flavor Text: "As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Set: Fourth Edition (#42), Rarity: Common, Artist: Dennis Detwiller