---
name: "Pikemen"
mana_cost: "{1}{W}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Creature — Human Soldier"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["First strike", "Banding"]
set: "REN"
set_name: "Renaissance"
collector_number: "18"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Dennis Detwiller"
oracle_id: "5556a897-8947-4b78-81ce-a829508a4f11"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/pikemen-ren"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Pikemen
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{W}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Soldier
- **Power/Toughness:** 1/1
- **Keywords:** First strike, Banding

## Oracle 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.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Icatian Skirmishers](/printing/icatian-skirmishers-fem.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
2. [Kjeldoran Phalanx](/printing/kjeldoran-phalanx-ice.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
3. [Icatian Infantry](/printing/icatian-infantry-fem.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
4. [Benalish Hero](/printing/benalish-hero-lea.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
5. [Icatian Phalanx](/printing/icatian-phalanx-fem.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
6. [Benalish Infantry](/printing/benalish-infantry-wth.md) — Creature — Human Soldier

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Renaissance (REN) #18
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Dennis Detwiller
- **Total Printings:** 25 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`