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No wonder Icatia was utterly defeated. A typical infantry man had a p/t of .33333.
Posted By:
Demonic_Math_Tutor
(6/20/2013 8:46:40 AM)
had to chuckle at the ruling "creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker." hey, i'm sure it's happened once or twice in the history of casual magic.
banding is not at all a bad ability, it was just an overly-ambitious rule for alpha. if they'd waited a few years and called it something more flavorful ('fellowship', or 'bloodbond', or 'unity' maybe) you'd all be spouting a million combos that would create third turn wins using it. i suspect wotc will eventually come up with a simpler, slightly more powerful version. sadly, this will not make my tolaria any more desirable to anyone.
Posted By:
thevegetable
(9/30/2013 5:52:27 PM)
Banding was a cool ability, but it was definitely convoluted. It would have been so much simpler to make it something like "Banding - tap: target creature gets +X/+Y, where X is this creatures power and Y is this creatures toughness." (They tried to do this to a small extent, see the comments on infantry veteran, but it wasn't done very well). They could have kept a lot of the same functionality with abilities like "sacrifice this creature: regenerate target creature this creature banded with this turn". Things like camel would still work: "prevent all damage dealt by deserts to creatures this creature banded with this turn".
Sure, this misses out on the evasion loss, damage allocation, and things like first strike, lifelink, etc, but those just added to the confusion. Everyone understood a band could deal the sum of everythings power in damage. They didnt get that you could put more than lethal damage on your 1/1 banding to save the rest of your band and hose tra... (see all)
Posted By:
jonrds
(1/31/2014 2:38:35 PM)
HERE COME THE HUNKS!
Posted By:
car2n
(2/11/2014 11:26:54 AM)