Card text
Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
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Mana cost
{1}{W}
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Card text
Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Formation
Formation (25) is a White Instant from Ice Age (ICE). It costs {1}{W} and has mana value 2. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
Ice Age is a main expansion, released June 1995.
Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Card details
- Card number
- 25
- Set
- Ice Age (ICE)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 12 June 1995
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- White
- Colour identity
- White
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Formation
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