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Bringing the Band Back Together
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $247.79
Salt Sum: 35.43
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $0.49
Ayesha Tanaka

Banding (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 blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) {T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays {W}. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature
Ayesha Tanaka (chr) 73
1

Banding

Quantity: 3Price: $1.19
Baton of Morale

{2}: 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.)

Artifact
Baton of Morale (ice) 313
1
Cooperation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has banding. (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.)

Enchantment
Cooperation (ice) 18
1
Helm of Chatzuk

{1}, {T}: 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.)

Artifact
Helm of Chatzuk (5ed) 376
1

Card Draw

Quantity: 8Price: $33.18
Chivalric Alliance

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card. {2}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 white and blue Knight creature token with vigilance.

Enchantment
Chivalric Alliance (moc) 11
1
Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (clb) 717
1
Firemane Commando

Flying Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card. Whenever another player attacks with two or more creatures, they draw a card if none of those creatures attacked you.

Creature
Firemane Commando (moc) 73
1
Glimmer Lens

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.) Whenever equipped creature and at least one other creature attack, draw a card. Equip {1}{W}

Artifact
Glimmer Lens (onc) 6
1
Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
1
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (cmm) 42
1
Military Intelligence

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

Enchantment
Military Intelligence (znc) 31
1
Welcoming Vampire

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures with power 2 or less enter the battlefield under your control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Welcoming Vampire (vow) 46
1

Combat Control

Quantity: 9Price: $10.53
Breaker of Armies

All creatures able to block Breaker of Armies do so.

Creature
Breaker of Armies (bfz) 3
1
Courtly Provocateur

{T}: Target creature attacks this turn if able. {T}: Target creature blocks this turn if able.

Creature
Courtly Provocateur (m13) 46
1
Deftblade Elite

Provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.) {1}{W}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Deftblade Elite this turn.

Creature
Deftblade Elite (lgn) 12
1
Gideon Jura

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Planeswalker
Gideon Jura (cmm) 822
1
Grappling Hook

Equipped creature has double strike. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may have target creature block it this turn if able. Equip {4}

Artifact
Grappling Hook (c17) 212
1
Kytheon, Hero of Akros

Creature
Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged (ori) 23Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged (ori) 23
1
Magnetic Web

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able. Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able. {1}, {T}: Put a magnet counter on target creature.

Artifact
Magnetic Web (tmp) 295
1
Nemesis Mask

All creatures able to block equipped creature do so. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact
Nemesis Mask (dst) 134
1
Odric, Master Tactician

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Whenever Odric, Master Tactician and at least three other creatures attack, you choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

Creature
Odric, Master Tactician (cmm) 46
1

Combat Triggers

Quantity: 15Price: $47.67
Belltower Sphinx

Flying Whenever a source deals damage to Belltower Sphinx, that source's controller mills that many cards.

Creature
Belltower Sphinx (jmp) 141
1
Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (cmr) 59
1
Elesh Norn

Creature
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings (mom) 12Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings (mom) 12
1
Fleet Swallower

Whenever Fleet Swallower attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Creature
Fleet Swallower (xln) 57
1
Guardian Scalelord

Backup 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, return target nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Guardian Scalelord (moc) 16
1
Horn of the Mark

Whenever two or more creatures you control attack a player, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Horn of the Mark (ltr) 241
1
Infiltration Lens

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Infiltration Lens (som) 167
1
Kaldra Compleat

Living weapon Indestructible Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, trample, indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature." Equip {7}

Artifact
Kaldra Compleat (cmm) 958
1
Phyrexian Vindicator

Flying If damage would be dealt to Phyrexian Vindicator, prevent that damage. When damage is prevented this way, Phyrexian Vindicator deals that much damage to any other target.

Creature
Phyrexian Vindicator (one) 27
1
Stuffy Doll

Indestructible As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player. Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player. {T}: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

Creature Artifact
Stuffy Doll (clb) 875
1
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever Sun Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (ncc) 210
1
Terisian Mindbreaker

Whenever Terisian Mindbreaker attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Terisian Mindbreaker (bro) 83
1
Trapjaw Tyrant

Enrage — Whenever Trapjaw Tyrant is dealt damage, exile target creature an opponent controls until Trapjaw Tyrant leaves the battlefield.

Creature
Trapjaw Tyrant (rix) 29
1
Trepanation Blade

Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into their graveyard. Equip {2}

Artifact
Trepanation Blade (ima) 231
1
Vortex Elemental

{U}: Put Vortex Elemental and each creature blocking or blocked by it on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle. {3}{U}{U}: Target creature blocks Vortex Elemental this turn if able.

Creature
Vortex Elemental (bng) 56
1

Damage Absorbers

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Angelic Guardian

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, they gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Creature
Angelic Guardian (m20) 302
1
Avacyn, Guardian Angel

Flying, vigilance {1}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to another target creature this turn by sources of the color of your choice. {5}{W}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target player or planeswalker this turn by sources of the color of your choice.

Creature
Avacyn, Guardian Angel (m15) 3
1
Darksteel Plate

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Artifact
Darksteel Plate (2x2) 304
1
Deathless Angel

Flying {W}{W}: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Deathless Angel (roe) 17
1
Frontline Medic

Battalion — Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with {X} in its mana cost unless its controller pays {3}.

Creature
Frontline Medic (clb) 693
1
Goldbug, Humanity's Ally

Creature Artifact
Goldbug, Humanity's Ally // Goldbug, Scrappy Scout (bot) 11Goldbug, Humanity's Ally // Goldbug, Scrappy Scout (bot) 11
1
Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mother of Runes (clb) 702
1
Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

Vigilance, ward {1} {T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from the card type of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that type.)

Creature
Pippin, Guard of the Citadel (ltr) 218
1

Land

Quantity: 36Price: $20.31
Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped. When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (2x2) 318
1
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (2xm) 312
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (ltc) 306
1
Gates of Istfell

Gates of Istfell enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Gates of Istfell: You gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Land
Gates of Istfell (khm) 256
1
Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
1
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Irrigated Farmland enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (cmm) 1005
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (anb) 113
7
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
1
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (cmm) 421
1
Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land
Nimbus Maze (afc) 252
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (cmm) 423
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (anb) 115
14
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (cmm) 1020
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
1
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (cmm) 1035
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (cmm) 428
1

Ramp

Quantity: 11Price: $46.39
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
1
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (cmm) 941
1
Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {3}

Artifact
Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus (moc) 45
1
Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (cm2) 178
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
1
Sol Talisman

Suspend 3—{1} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Talisman (mh2) 236
1
Staff of Titania

Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of Forests you control. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature token. (It's affected by summoning sickness.) Equip {3}

Artifact
Staff of Titania (brc) 27
1
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (cmm) 413
1
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Talisman of Progress deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (cmm) 980
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414
1
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (cmm) 983
1

Removal

Quantity: 5Price: $10.85
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
1
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (moc) 172
1
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (cmm) 817
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
1
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (cmm) 26
1

Utility

Quantity: 4Price: $46.96
Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
1
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (ema) 9
1
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (40k) 181
1
Guardian of Faith

Flash Vigilance When Guardian of Faith enters the battlefield, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Creature
Guardian of Faith (afr) 18
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"After a wait far too long in the making, I present to you: The revival you've all been waiting for: The reunion of not just the decade, not just the century, not just the millennium, but of all Magic history: The return at last of Magic's greatest one-hit-wonder: Banding!!!\n\nThat's right, last seen in 2008 (well, outside of The List, anyways), this accursed Mechanic finally makes its debut into Magic's most popular format. Why, you ask? Because… Honestly because I want to curse my friends with having to play against this disaster of a mechanic.\n\nAnd no, this isn't just a thrown together pile of all the cards with banding ever printed! This is an honest to goodness Azorius EDH deck built to maximize the potential of Banding, helmed by the only commander graced with the keyword. We're going to force our opponents to attack and block creatures like Phyrexian Vindicator, Body of Knowledge, and Stuffy Doll, using our ability to assign our opponents' combat damage to keep our creatures always in the safe zone. Ultimately we'll win either with damage from cards like Phyrexian Vindicator, Elesh Norn, or Stuffy Doll or by making repeated attacks with mill creatures like Fleet Swallower or Teresian Mindbreaker, protected from scary blockers.\n\nThat's right, baby. We're Bringing the Band Back Together. Buy your tickets now!\n\n*Editor's Note: Slowly working on Banding Mk 2, alas while funny this version doesn't really... win? So tune in again soonish to see the newer version of this lol.\n\n"}]}
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