Battering Ram

Fifth Edition (5ED) #353 · Common · Artifact Creature — Construct

Mana cost: {2}

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.

Power/toughness 1/1 · Illustrated by Jeff A. Menges · Released March 24, 1997

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: unchanged at $0.12 USD.

Printings

  1. Fifth Edition #353 (this printing) · Common · 1997 · $0.12 USD
  2. Introductory Two-Player Set #48 (ITP) · Common · 1996
  3. Rivals Quick Start Set #47 (RQS) · Common · 1996
  4. Fourth Edition #297 (4ED) · Common · 1995 · $0.09 USD
  5. Antiquities #41 (ATQ) · Common · 1994 · $0.49 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2008-10-01 · wotc — A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
  2. 2008-10-01 · wotc — Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
  3. 2008-10-01 · wotc — 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.
  4. 2009-10-01 · wotc — If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.

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