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◇ Catalog #36

Icatian Phalanx

5ed·#36·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Kaja Foglio

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wishlisted

Mar 1997

29 yr ago

Value

$0.25+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.26 · low $0.24

NM$0.25

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.23–$0.26modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.25low $0.21range 19.0%n 43

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #25,160 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil$0.25

Gameplay

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.)

Even after the wall was breached in half a dozen places, the phalanxes fought on, standing solidly against the onrushing raiders. Disciplined and dedicated, they held their ranks to the end, even in the face of tremendous losses.

2/4

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 4

2009-10-01wotc

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

2008-10-01wotc

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

2008-10-01wotc

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.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.25. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.21 and $0.25 across 43 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from 5ED — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #36 of *Fifth Edition*, the set that shipped alongside the March 1997 Fifth Edition release.

Card type: Creature — Human Soldier, color identity white, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {4}{W} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Banding.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #25,160 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Kaja Foglio. Rarix catalogs 232 other cards credited to this artist.