Cards/Rivals Quick Start Set/Battering Ram

Battering Ram

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Artifact Creature — Construct

Rivals Quick Start Set·rqs #47·Common·1996·Art by Jeff A. Menges
StandardNot Legal
ModernNot Legal
CommanderLegal
LegacyLegal
PioneerNot Legal
VintageLegal

Oracle Text

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

P / T

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Set
Rivals Quick Start Set (RQS)
Number
#47
Rarity
Common
Artist
Jeff A. Menges
Frame
1993
Border
White
Language
EN
Finishes
Nonfoil

Value

No recorded value.

Card Knowledge

Legalities

StandardNot Legal
PioneerNot Legal
ModernNot Legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal

Rulings4

10/1/2008·wotc

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

10/1/2008·wotc

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

10/1/2008·wotc

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.

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