MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #19

Knights of Thorn

DIGITAL ONLY

me1·#19·common·foil

Illus. Christopher Rush

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Sep '07

19 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #24,430 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.04

Nonfoil$0.04

Gameplay

Creature — Human Knight

Protection from red; 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.)

"With a great cry, the goblin host broke and ran as the first wave of knights penetrated its ranks." —Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars

2/2

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDHlegal

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

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.

2008-10-01wotc

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

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ME1 — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #19 of *Masters Edition*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2007 Masters Edition release.

Card type: Creature — Human Knight, color identity white, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {3}{W} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Protection and Banding.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #24,430 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Christopher Rush. Rarix catalogs 542 other cards credited to this artist.