Battering Ram

Fifth Edition • #353 • common

Artifact Creature — Construct |

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Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)

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Battering Ram

Fifth Edition • #353 • common

Current Valuation

$0.12

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Rarity

common

Set Origin

5ED

Daily Shift

0.00%

EDHREC Rank

#25,081

Mana Cost

Oracle Data

Card Type Artifact Creature — Construct

Color Identity Colorless

Power / Toughness 1 / 1

🖋️ Curator's Notes

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."

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Official Judge Precedents

4 Precedents

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.

📜 Technical Attributes

Release Date: 1997-03-24

Set Name: Fifth Edition

Artist Reference: Jeff A. Menges

Border Profile: white

✨ Variants & Finishes

Available Finishes Standard

Promo Status NO

Edition Status Reprint