Card text
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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Mana cost
{2}
Power / toughness
1/1
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Card text
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.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Battering Ram
Battering Ram (353) is an Artifact Creature — Construct from Fifth Edition (5ED). It costs {2}, has mana value 2 and is a 1/1. It is printed at Common rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Pauper and 1 more format.
Fifth Edition is a core set, released March 1997. Battering Ram has 3 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
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.
Card details
- Card number
- 353
- Set
- Fifth Edition (5ED)
- Set type
- Core set
- Released
- 24 March 1997
- Rarity
- Common (C)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Colour
- Colourless
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Battering Ram
Battering Ram in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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