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Shield Bearer

Shield Bearer Price

3 printings · 3 sets · first printed 1995

Cheapest $0.18
Median $0.22
Highest $0.26
EDHREC Rank #23,318

Shield Bearer has been printed 3 times across 3 sets, first in 1995 and most recently in 2008. Right now the cheapest printing is Ice Age #52 at $0.18, while the most expensive is Fifth Edition #62 at $0.26. The median across 2 priced printings is $0.22. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 3x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (Masters Edition II).

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Every Shield Bearer Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Ice Age #52 (C) Cheapest 1995 $0.18 —
Fifth Edition #62 (C) 1997 $0.26 —
Masters Edition II #35 (C) 2008 — —

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Creature — Human Soldier
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.)
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Legal In
Legacy Vintage Commander Pauper Penny Dreadful PreDH

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 3 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

4 Precedents

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

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

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.

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.