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Shield Bearer

{1}{W}

Creature — Human Soldier

5EDFifth Edition#62common

"You have almost completed your four years, my son. Soon you shall be a skyknight." —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Border
white
Frame
1997
Pull rate
~1 in 6–15
Illustrator
Dan Frazier
Found in
Fifth Edition Starter Deck · Fifth Edition Booster Pack
Printings3
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernLegal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
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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Banding
Market · per finishspark updated 12h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil-4.8%
$0.20
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.18· across 3 printings

Rulings

4 · latest Oct 1, 2009 · one tap opens all
  • WotCOct 1, 2009

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

  • WotCOct 1, 2008

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

  • WotCOct 1, 2008

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

  • WotCOct 1, 2008

    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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