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Formation

Card Name

Formation

Mana Cost

1

Type

Instant

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Target creature gains banding until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Flavor Text

"I have been a warrior for over four hundred years, and yet each generation of Kjeldorans teaches me new tricks. There can be no better allies." —Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(10/1/2008)
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.
(10/1/2008)
A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
(10/1/2008)
Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
(10/1/2009)
If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.