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.)
Whenever this creature attacks, all creatures banded with it gain first strike until end of turn.
Skirmishers engaged raiders before they could reach the towns. Although these units typically suffered huge losses, they never lacked volunteers.
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Legalities
tlrnot legal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennynot legal
PreDHlegal
futurenot legal
legacylegal
modernnot legal
paupernot legal
alchemynot legal
pioneernot legal
vintagelegal
historicnot legal
standardnot legal
Timelessnot legal
commanderlegal
Gladiatornot legal
Old Schoollegal
Premodernnot legal
Oathbreakerlegal
Standard Brawlnot legal
Pauper Commandernot legal
◆ Reserved List
Context
Across the 1 printing of this card, the trailing-90-day price band runs from $0.74 to $1.04 across 56 observations.
Card type: Creature — Human Soldier. Color identity: white. Mana cost: {3}{W} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: First strike and Banding.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This card concept is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint Reserved List cards, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy across every printing.
EDHrec ranks this card concept #22,959 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
The representative printing on this page is illustrated by Heather Hudson.