wotc
If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.
MTG · Card
◇ Catalog #13
War Elephant
bchr·#13·common·nonfoil·JA
Illus. Kristen Bishop
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Jul 1995
31 yr ago
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Played in EDH
EDHrec rank #23,632 · Fringe play
Variants
Gameplay
Creature — Elephant
Trample; 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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Legalities
tlrnot legal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennynot legal
PreDHlegal
Rulings · 4
wotc
A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
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.
Context
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from BCHR — 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 #13 of *Chronicles Foreign Black Border*, the set that shipped alongside the July 1995 Chronicles Foreign Black Border release.
Card type: Creature — Elephant, color identity white, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {3}{W} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Banding and Trample.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.
EDHrec ranks this card #23,632 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Kristen Bishop. Rarix catalogs 3 other cards credited to this artist.
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