I was wondering if anyone could verify that the rules still function in this way as I cannot find a date that this was submitted. It seemed odd that you can assign your damage to a protection from color creature, that you can overkill creatures, and just some of the other things implied in this document. I appologize if I am asking somewhat of a long request but banding is really weird and I just want to make sure this article is not some sort of old out of date rules.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
It seemed odd that you can assign your damage to a protection from color creature, that you can overkill creatures
You can do these things without banding, actually.
Normally, you pick the damage assignment order during Declare Blockers, then assign damage during Combat Damage -- you must assign at least lethal damage to the first creature in the damage assignment order before moving to the next creature (the only things taken into consideration to determine "lethal" are whether the creature dealing the damage has deathtouch, what other damage is being assigned at the same time, and any existing damage marked on the creature taking the damage), but you can assign more than lethal if you want to. Finally, after damage is assigned, it's all dealt simultaneously.
One example of assigning extra damage you might encounter in your EDH games would be something like Blightsteel Colossus swinging at a player with Gisela, Blade of Goldnight. If the Gisela player blocks with Gisela and a 4/4 Angel token, "lethal" damage for each is 5 and 4 respectively. If the Blightsteel player actually assigns 5 damage and 4 damage (and 2 damage to the player thanks to trample), each of those numbers will get halved by Gisela and both creatures will survive. (Each with 2 -1/-1 counters, and the player with 1 poison counter.) If the Blightsteel player assigns 10 damage to Gisela and 1 damage to the Angel, the token will survive with no -1/-1 counters thanks to Gisela's ability, and Gisela will die.
Banding changes this up by making the damage assignment order irrelevant to damage being dealt the to group of banding creatures. The player with the band (or the blocking creatures including banding, which isn't technically "a band") can distribute the incoming damage however they please.
Also: considering the url ends with "20010830a", I'm pretty sure it was posted August 30, 2001 and it was probably the first draft of the document.
Thanks, if you dont mind a follow up banding question,
Assuming my opponent is attacking with a 5/5 flying creature and I have a 4/4 flying creature + a 1/1 creature with banding; may I block with this banded team or how does blocking function with a band of creatures when involving evasions? If a creature in the band has flying can the band block as though it has flying?
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
Thanks, if you dont mind a follow up banding question,
Assuming my opponent is attacking with a 5/5 flying creature and I have a 4/4 flying creature + a 1/1 creature with banding; may I block with this banded team or how does blocking function with a band of creatures when involving evasions? If a creature in the band has flying can the band block as though it has flying?
When blocking with banding, you declare blockers as normal. Then, if you're blocking one attacker with multiple creatures and at least one blocker has banding, you can distribute the damage using banding rules. Banding does not give you extra capability to block evasive creatures.
The opposite is true for attacking with a band. You declare any number of creatures with banding and up to one creature without banding to be attacking as "a band" (assuming you're attacking with multiple creatures). If a defending player's creature can block any member of the band, that creature can block the entire band.
I was wondering if anyone could verify that the rules still function in this way as I cannot find a date that this was submitted. It seemed odd that you can assign your damage to a protection from color creature, that you can overkill creatures, and just some of the other things implied in this document. I appologize if I am asking somewhat of a long request but banding is really weird and I just want to make sure this article is not some sort of old out of date rules.
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Normally, you pick the damage assignment order during Declare Blockers, then assign damage during Combat Damage -- you must assign at least lethal damage to the first creature in the damage assignment order before moving to the next creature (the only things taken into consideration to determine "lethal" are whether the creature dealing the damage has deathtouch, what other damage is being assigned at the same time, and any existing damage marked on the creature taking the damage), but you can assign more than lethal if you want to. Finally, after damage is assigned, it's all dealt simultaneously.
One example of assigning extra damage you might encounter in your EDH games would be something like Blightsteel Colossus swinging at a player with Gisela, Blade of Goldnight. If the Gisela player blocks with Gisela and a 4/4 Angel token, "lethal" damage for each is 5 and 4 respectively. If the Blightsteel player actually assigns 5 damage and 4 damage (and 2 damage to the player thanks to trample), each of those numbers will get halved by Gisela and both creatures will survive. (Each with 2 -1/-1 counters, and the player with 1 poison counter.) If the Blightsteel player assigns 10 damage to Gisela and 1 damage to the Angel, the token will survive with no -1/-1 counters thanks to Gisela's ability, and Gisela will die.
Banding changes this up by making the damage assignment order irrelevant to damage being dealt the to group of banding creatures. The player with the band (or the blocking creatures including banding, which isn't technically "a band") can distribute the incoming damage however they please.
Also: considering the url ends with "20010830a", I'm pretty sure it was posted August 30, 2001 and it was probably the first draft of the document.
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Assuming my opponent is attacking with a 5/5 flying creature and I have a 4/4 flying creature + a 1/1 creature with banding; may I block with this banded team or how does blocking function with a band of creatures when involving evasions? If a creature in the band has flying can the band block as though it has flying?
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The opposite is true for attacking with a band. You declare any number of creatures with banding and up to one creature without banding to be attacking as "a band" (assuming you're attacking with multiple creatures). If a defending player's creature can block any member of the band, that creature can block the entire band.
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