---
name: "Shield Bearer"
mana_cost: "{1}{W}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Creature — Human Soldier"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["Banding"]
set: "5ED"
set_name: "Fifth Edition"
collector_number: "62"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Dan Frazier"
oracle_id: "75decba6-d188-4144-8e74-58285be0fe9f"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/shield-bearer-5ed"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Shield Bearer
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{W}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Soldier
- **Power/Toughness:** 0/3
- **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.)

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## Printing Details
- **Set:** Fifth Edition (5ED) #62
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Dan Frazier
- **Total Printings:** 16 across all historical editions

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