Budget Decks: Good Ol' Banding

by NorthernWarlord on 18 November 2014

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Deck Description

Are you bored? Does Magic: The Gathering feel old and vapid? Got any useless bucks in your bank account? Ladies and Gentlemen, I have solution.
Use your bank account on nearest MTG marketplace website and buy some cheap cards, craft a deck, and challenge your friends! To double the fun, ask your friend to create such a deck too!
The Budget Decks -series is meant for your free time! These are meant to inspire you, and deck's value is meant to be low! (Between 10 and 20 bucks.)

How to Play

Inspired by Lycandros.


The good ol' mechanics never truly die. Banding is a good example of those mechanics. For those who are not quite clear yet about banding, I can tell the main stuff:

-Banding is an old keyword that allows creatures to attack in groups. Up to one of the creatures doesn't need to have banding in order to attack with the group. An attacking player must inform clearly of which creatures attack and which don't in band. You can also attack with multiple bands if you want to.

-If a player blocks a creature that is a part of a band, the creature which blocks blocks the whole band instead of that one creature. The ATTACKING PLAYER is allowed to choose how damage is divided within the band. Basically, you should throw a bit of damage everywhere to avoid useless deaths.

-The attacking player also chooses in which order the creature in the band deal their combat damage. THAT IS THE REASON why this deck has 3x Sword of Vengeance and 3x Loxodon Warhammer, since you can choose that your tramplers deal their damage as last, so their strike goes though (if the blocker(s) died, of course).

-When blocking, your creatures with banding can block as a group, just like when attacking. You can take one non-bander too. You are allowed to choose how the damage is dealt among the blocking creatures, etc.

I hope you understood. Banding is a very hard keyword to understand.

Deck Tags

  • Inspired Deck
  • Banding
  • Budget
  • Cheap

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Budget Decks: Good Ol' Banding

Love it! Wish they'd bring banding back. Such an interesting mechanic.

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Posted 20 November 2014 at 01:00

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Yeah, it is cool and all, but Wizards mostly removed it since it was extremely hard for newbies to understand. It is a very hard keyword. Maybe the most hard of them all.

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Posted 20 November 2014 at 06:55

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I suppose, lots of information is needed to supplement even the initial errata.

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Posted 20 November 2014 at 20:50

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