Ayesha Tanaka
Legends (LEG) #220 · Rare · Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Mana cost: {W}{W}{U}{U}
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.)
{T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays {W}. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Bryon Wackwitz · Released June 1, 1994
Prices
- Nonfoil: $14.61 USD · €9.45 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.05 USD (0.3%) to $14.61 USD; low $14.41 USD, high $14.66 USD.
Printings
- Chronicles #73 (CHR) · Rare · 1995 · $0.33 USD
- Legends #220 (this printing) · Rare · 1994 · $14.61 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 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.
- 2008-10-01 · wotc — Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
- 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.
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.
- 2016-06-08 · wotc — Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.