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Is there a way to make banding modern? If you can help with that as a side quest that would be awesome just to make me happy.
As is, I am very happy with leaving banding behind and what we have done. I like all the cards we have picked. Today I searched for a goblin orc wizard working as a team to cast red's instant but didn't find any art I liked.
I have put up a number of new candidates at rare including a cycle of rare Enchant World cards. Here are all the candidates. https://mtgcardsmith.com/user/Scott_Anderson/sets/30412
Banding. Let's see what I can dig up for us to look at.
From the Comprehensive Rules (Dominaria (April 27, 2018))
702.21. Banding
702.21a Banding is a static ability that modifies the rules for combat.
702.21b “Bands with other” is a special form of banding. If an effect causes a permanent to lose banding, the permanent loses all “bands with other” abilities as well.
702.21c As a player declares attackers, they may declare that one or more attacking creatures with banding and up to one attacking creature without banding (even if it has “bands with other”) are all in a “band.” They may also declare that one or more attacking [quality] creatures with “bands with other [quality]” and any number of other attacking [quality] creatures are all in a band. A player may declare as many attacking bands as they want, but each creature may be a member of only one of them. (Defending players can’t declare bands but may use banding in a different way; see rule 702.21j.)
702.21d All creatures in an attacking band must attack the same player or planeswalker.
702.21e Once an attacking band has been announced, it lasts for the rest of combat, even if something later removes banding or “bands with other” from one or more of the creatures in the band.
702.21f An attacking creature that’s removed from combat is also removed from the band it was in.
702.21g Banding doesn’t cause attacking creatures to share abilities, nor does it remove any abilities. The attacking creatures in a band are separate permanents.
702.21h If an attacking creature becomes blocked by a creature, each other creature in the same band as the attacking creature becomes blocked by that same blocking creature.
Example: A player attacks with a band consisting of a creature with flying and a creature with swampwalk. The defending player, who controls a Swamp, can block the flying creature if able. If they do, then the creature with swampwalk will also become blocked by the blocking creature(s).
702.21i If one member of a band would become blocked due to an effect, the entire band becomes blocked.
702.21j During the combat damage step, if an attacking creature is being blocked by a creature with banding, or by both a [quality] creature with “bands with other [quality]” and another [quality] creature, the defending player (rather than the active player) chooses how the attacking creature’s damage is assigned. That player can divide that creature’s combat damage as they choose among any number of creatures blocking it. This is an exception to the procedure described in rule 510.1c.
702.21k During the combat damage step, if a blocking creature is blocking a creature with banding, or both a [quality] creature with “bands with other [quality]” and another [quality] creature, the active player (rather than the defending player) chooses how the blocking creature’s damage is assigned. That player can divide that creature’s combat damage as they choose among any number of creatures it’s blocking. This is an exception to the procedure described in rule 510.1d.
702.21m Multiple instances of banding on the same creature are redundant. Multiple instances of “bands with other” of the same kind on the same creature are redundant.
I did some thinking about banding. If you want to see banding in the set then let’s put it in the set! We don’t have to do reminder text.
I think Wary Traveler is a perfect card for Banding. There ought to be one or more Banding cards (for flavor) and maybe one Bands With card for extra flavor.
What cards can you see that could do with Banding or Bands With?
If you are okay with banding let me post some older cards I had made:
Nothing to do with banding but:
Do you think this should be a rare?
Another Rare I made a while ago:
She doesn't have banding but she has an activation effect related to banding:
It wouldn't fit well in the set but I have a white dwarf that does something when in a band and a blue one.
Not banding, but maybe I could re-make this for rare?
Cards:
Warlord yes! Maybe new name.
Hiding thrull yes!
Tetra Gold feels just goofy enough to be from Legends. Maybe you can rename her after a dwarf in the FE story?
Vodalian Scout yes!
Banding token: well, Banding has three key parts to it.
1) the player with creatures that are banding controls how damage is assigned
2) if a creature can block any attacker in a band, then it can block the whole band.
3) any number of banding creatures plus up to one without banding can form a band.
That’s a lot to put on any card.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235
Do you think Tourach Beckons could be a rare? I will work on these for our rares.
There are no names orcs nor any dragons in fallen empires. Not a problem; there’s no reason why Warlord has to be named, or named for a FE character. We could leave it generic or give it a name and Legend status.
I really like token cards. We should include a Banding marker.
I gave you the template for the blue scout card on it’s card page.
She would be a Legendary Creature - Dwarf Soldier
She is the one who sent for help when the orc-goblin army overran Achtep Keep. Only Thurzen Klaade from the Order of th Ebon Hand sent help; but it was Iyra, who switched sides.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/morgan-thelonite-druid
We need a few more interesting cards to put at rare. They don't have to be OP, just interesting. I'd like to get a Bethan Leitbur card in there but I don't know what to make for him yet.
Here is what we need:
3 total artifact or land cards
2 white cards
3 blue cards
2 red cards
1 green card.
Here are some cards that I have thought up. Maybe you will like some. But please please send me links to the cards you have made that you want to put at rare!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/user/Scott_Anderson/sets/30583
Here is another suggestion - a wise old holy man rather than a young fighter.
The storyline suggests that Oliver Farrel and his men were frustrated because the Order of Leitbur wasn't militant enough and didn't wage war against the Ebon Hand as aggressively as Farrel would like. That's why in both cases, I made a guy who wasn't a normal "high priest" type or military general.
Do you think either of these are correct, or do you have a different vision?
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.
I like both, too. The banding tokens are on the more-militant, younger Bethan. We can use that one.