MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #35

Shield Bearer

DIGITAL ONLY

me2·#35·common·nonfoil

Illus. Dan Frazier

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Sep '08

18 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #22,168 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.05

Nonfoil$0.05

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.)

"You have almost completed your four years, my son. Soon you shall be a skyknight." —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

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Legalities

tlrlegal

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

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

2008-10-01wotc

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

2008-10-01wotc

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ME2 — 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 #35 of *Masters Edition II*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2008 Masters Edition II release.

Card type: Creature — Human Soldier, color identity white, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {1}{W} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Banding.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #22,168 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Dan Frazier. Rarix catalogs 929 other cards credited to this artist.