Battering Ram
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SetRQS
Collector #47
Released1996-07-01
Raritycommon
ArtistJeff A. Menges
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Battering Ram

CommonMV 2
Artifact Creature — Construct
At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.
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ArtifactCreature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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Other printings
4 other English printingsEarliest 1994-03-04Newest 1997-03-24Cheapest priced $0.09 in 4ED
Rulings (4)
wotc1 Oct 2009
If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.
wotc1 Oct 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.
wotc1 Oct 2008
A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
wotc1 Oct 2008
Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.