Pikemen

The Dark • #15 • common

Creature — Human Soldier |

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Live Value $0.33

Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)

Reprint Profile:

Printed 5 times ELEVATED

Reprinted 5x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (Renaissance).

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Pikemen

The Dark • #15 • common

Current Valuation

$0.33

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Rarity

common

Set Origin

DRK

Daily Shift

0.00%

EDHREC Rank

#22,692

Mana Cost

Oracle Data

Card Type Creature — Human Soldier

Color Identity White

Power / Toughness 1 / 1

🖋️ Curator's Notes

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.)

""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*"

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Official Judge Precedents

4 Precedents

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.

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.

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: 1994-08-01

Set Name: The Dark

Artist Reference: Dennis Detwiller

Border Profile: black

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