---
name: "Volunteer Reserves"
mana_cost: "{1}{W}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Creature — Human Soldier"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["Banding", "Cumulative upkeep"]
set: "WTH"
set_name: "Weatherlight"
collector_number: "29"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Kev Walker"
oracle_id: "a2dabd52-0b75-42d7-a07d-0df7b38646e2"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/volunteer-reserves-wth"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Volunteer Reserves
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{W}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Creature — Human Soldier
- **Power/Toughness:** 2/4
- **Keywords:** Banding, Cumulative upkeep

## 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.)
Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

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

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Weatherlight (WTH) #29
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Kev Walker
- **Total Printings:** 10 across all historical editions

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