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◇ Catalog #47

Battering Ram

rqs·#47·common·nonfoil

Illus. Jeff A. Menges

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wishlisted

Jul 1996

30 yr ago

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #24,135 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Artifact Creature — Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

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

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 2 catalogued treatments from RQS — 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 #47 of *Rivals Quick Start Set*, the set that shipped alongside the July 1996 Rivals Quick Start Set release.

Card type: Artifact Creature — Construct, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {2} (2 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #24,135 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Jeff A. Menges. Rarix catalogs 338 other cards credited to this artist.