Formation
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Ice Age #25 (rare)
- Price
- $0.94 USD
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.
Formation has 1 printing, first in Ice Age (1995). EDHREC ranks it #24,088 among Commander cards. It appears most in Soraya the Falconer decks (164 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Formation most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Soraya the Falconer: 164 decks
- Ayesha Tanaka: 99 decks
- General Jarkeld: 50 decks
- Taranika, Akroan Veteran: 14 decks
- Ragnar: 11 decks
- Sidar Jabari: 7 decks
- Hazduhr the Abbot: 3 decks
- Pang Tong, "Young Phoenix": 1 decks
Often played with Formation
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
- : Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
- : If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a "band." The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers' damage is assigned.
- : If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.