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It's rated low because banding isn't so useful on 1/1 creatures, and unnecessary on flying creatures. Banding is less about combining strengths, and more about the advantage of distributing damage among your own creatures how you see fit. Banding is about losing the creatures you want to lose in combat, instead of your opponent making that decision as per the normal rules of the game. So, a 1/1 creature that bands can still only take 1 point of damage, it does nothing to absorb hit points that saves your creatures, unless you want the Pegasus, with flying evasion, to die. Banding needed creatures with high toughness so you could assign most of the damage to them and still keep most of your attackers and defenders. Icatian Phalanx is a creature that depicts the best form of what banding is meant for, damage absorption.
It's a moot point anyway as Banding isn't a worthwhile tool for a deck, I see it as severe card disadvantage. If a person has such a creature advan... (see all)
Posted By:
BonniePrinceCharlie
(5/24/2011 5:35:10 PM)
The Oracle text guy forgot the most important and common question: what happens when Mesa Pegasus attacks or blocks with a non-flyer in a band? :-)
Posted By:
DrJack
(7/18/2012 5:10:16 PM)
That awkward moment when the woman visits the land of the Mesa Pegasus, and the Pegasus doesn't appear.
Posted By:
Lord_Raincoat
(8/16/2012 9:10:23 AM)
@The_Erudite_Idiot
"misunderestimate"
*twitch*
Posted By:
CogMonocle
(7/12/2013 11:33:15 AM)
@ Aquillion
I can't tell you how many times that exact scenario played out in games I was playing in the mid-to-late 90's.
Unfortunately, with today's power creep and so many creatures with ridiculous P/T and game-changing abilities, both activated and otherwise, poor banding has simply been outclassed. Why woud WotC print banding when they can add words like deathtouch or double strike? I often miss the simpler days of Revised and a reasonable expansion here or there.
Posted By:
emlit
(11/8/2013 6:54:38 PM)