Pikemen {1}{W}
Creature - Human Soldier
First strike; banding
"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
—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
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Details
- Artist: Dennis Detwiller
- Collector Number: 15
- Available only as nonfoil
- Rarity: common (C3)
- Released: 1994-08-01
- Set: The Dark
Legalities
- legal Commander
- legal Duel Commander
- legal Legacy
- legal MTGO Commander
- legal Pauper
- legal Premodern
- legal Vintage
Rulings
- 2008-10-01 A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
- 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.
- 2009-10-01 If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.
Links
Printings
- Fifth Edition (common)
- Fourth Edition (common)
- The Dark (common)
Card is in preconstructed decks:
- Arzakon (Astral Cards Shandalar Enemy Deck)
- Cleric (Astral Cards Shandalar Enemy Deck)
- Crusader (Astral Cards Shandalar Enemy Deck)
- Priestess (Astral Cards Shandalar Enemy Deck)
Foreign names
- Spießträger
- Piquiers
- Picchieri
- 長槍兵
- Piqueiros
- Piqueros