Pikemen
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| Commander | Legal |
| Duel | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Paupercommander | Legal |
| Predh | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Card Set | Fifth Edition |
| Card Type | Creature — Human Soldier |
| Rarity | Common |
| Mana Cost | |
| Card Stats | 1 / 1 |
| Card 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.) |
| Flavor Text | "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* |
| Card Number | #52 |
| Artist | Dan Frazier |
| Subtypes | Human , Soldier |
| Keywords | Banding , First strike |
| Card Languages | English , French , German , Italian , Japanese , Portuguese (Brazil) , Spanish |
| Frame Version | 1997 |
| Border Color | White |
| EDHREC Rank | 20516 |
| Has Foil? | No |
| Reprint? | Yes |
| Is Promo? | No |
| Oversized? | No |
| Joke Card? | No |
| In Starter? | No |
| Time Shifted? | No |
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Card Rulings
2008-10-01A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
2008-10-01Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
2008-10-01If 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.
2009-10-01If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.