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◇ Catalog #5

Benalish Hero

DIGITAL ONLY

me1·#5·common·foil

Illus. Douglas Shuler

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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 #20,538 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.04

Nonfoil$0.04

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

1/1

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

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

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

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

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 #5 of *Masters Edition*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2007 Masters Edition release.

Card type: Creature — Human Soldier, color identity white, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {W} (1 converted). Keyword abilities: Banding.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #20,538 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Douglas Shuler. Rarix catalogs 707 other cards credited to this artist.