First strike; 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.)
"As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said."
—Maeveen O'Donagh,
*Memoirs of a Soldier*
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Legalities
tlrlegal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennynot legal
PreDHlegal
futurenot legal
legacylegal
modernnot legal
pauperlegal
alchemynot legal
pioneernot legal
vintagelegal
historicnot legal
standardnot legal
Timelessnot legal
commanderlegal
Gladiatornot legal
Old Schoolnot legal
Premodernlegal
Oathbreakerlegal
Standard Brawlnot legal
Pauper Commanderlegal
Context
Across the 5 printings of this card, the trailing-90-day price band runs from $0.03 to $0.99 across 260 observations.
Rarix catalogs 5 distinct printings of this card concept, spanning every set the card has appeared in. The Printings grid below lists each one with its own variant treatment, price, and collector signal.
Card type: Creature — Human Soldier. Color identity: white. Mana cost: {1}{W} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: First strike and Banding.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.
EDHrec ranks this card concept #22,144 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
The representative printing on this page is illustrated by Dan Frazier.