I keep an old boarder nostalgia cube. There are many cards in the cube that have recieved errata, or have gotten easier to understand oracle text, and a few cards in other languages that I need to provide translations for.
I'm essentially compiling a simple document that slips into my cube with all the answers about cards in the cube people might have.
I'm looking to add a few cards with banding, again, for the sake of nostalgia.
I know how banding works, but I'm trying to figure out the simplest, plainest way to explain banding to someone - so if someone comes across a card with banding in draft, and doesn't want to reveal the card to everyone, they can glance at the "rules" sheet to understand. Granted, I mostly play with people who have a good familiarity with the game, but even they may not have encountered banding before.
Can y'all help me figure out the simplest way to explain banding on the "rules sheet" that will go with the cube?
*There will be no "Bands with others" cards"
This is the oracle reminder text on banding cards:
"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."
I think that's pretty clear, but the final part of the clause feels a little confusing. Has anyone found an even simpler way to explain banding?
Also one rules question: does Banding use the stack? Like if I have priority and cast Errand of Duty before blockers are declared, and my opponent has no response to the spell, can I then band the knight token immediately, or does the banding action go on the stack and the op can respond to the banding trigger?
Also one rules question: does Banding use the stack? Like if I have priority and cast Errant of Duty before blockers are declared, and my opponent has no response to the spell, can I then band the knight token immediately, or does the banding action go on the stack and the op can respond to the banding trigger?
In order to band on offense, a creature needs to have Banding before you declare attackers. It doesn't use the stack, but setting up some creatures as a band is done as part of the declare attackers turn-based action.
In order to band on defense, a creature needs to have Banding before the combat damage step. It also doesn't use the stack, but you don't have to declare a band as you declare blockers.
The rest of the post is out of scope for this forum, I think.
The last sentence in the banding reminder text you cited is meant to say that generally, the player who controls a creature with banding assigns combat damage from creatures blocking or blocked by that creature, rather than any other player (see also C.R. 702.21j-k).
Banding is a static ability; it merely changes the rules for attacking, blocking, and assigning combat damage (C.R. 702.21, especially C.R. 702.21a). It's not an activated or triggered ability or a spell, so it doesn't go on the stack (review C.R. 602.1, 603.1, 602.2, 603.3, 405.1).
I keep an old boarder nostalgia cube. There are many cards in the cube that have recieved errata, or have gotten easier to understand oracle text, and a few cards in other languages that I need to provide translations for.
I'm essentially compiling a simple document that slips into my cube with all the answers about cards in the cube people might have.
I'm looking to add a few cards with banding, again, for the sake of nostalgia.
I know how banding works, but I'm trying to figure out the simplest, plainest way to explain banding to someone - so if someone comes across a card with banding in draft, and doesn't want to reveal the card to everyone, they can glance at the "rules" sheet to understand. Granted, I mostly play with people who have a good familiarity with the game, but even they may not have encountered banding before.
Can y'all help me figure out the simplest way to explain banding on the "rules sheet" that will go with the cube?
*There will be no "Bands with others" cards"
This is the oracle reminder text on banding cards:
"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."
I think that's pretty clear, but the final part of the clause feels a little confusing. Has anyone found an even simpler way to explain banding?
Also one rules question: does Banding use the stack? Like if I have priority and cast Errand of Duty before blockers are declared, and my opponent has no response to the spell, can I then band the knight token immediately, or does the banding action go on the stack and the op can respond to the banding trigger?
Thanks!
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In order to band on defense, a creature needs to have Banding before the combat damage step. It also doesn't use the stack, but you don't have to declare a band as you declare blockers.
The rest of the post is out of scope for this forum, I think.
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Banding is a static ability; it merely changes the rules for attacking, blocking, and assigning combat damage (C.R. 702.21, especially C.R. 702.21a). It's not an activated or triggered ability or a spell, so it doesn't go on the stack (review C.R. 602.1, 603.1, 602.2, 603.3, 405.1).
EDIT (Apr. 18): Correctness edit.
EDIT (Dec. 28): Correctness edit; added rule citation.