Shield Bearer
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Human Soldier
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 3
- Set
- Masters Edition II #35 (common)
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.)
Shield Bearer has 3 printings, first in Ice Age (1995). EDHREC ranks it #23,440 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ayesha Tanaka decks (129 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Shield Bearer most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ayesha Tanaka: 129 decks
- General Jarkeld: 106 decks
- Taranika, Akroan Veteran: 36 decks
- Ragnar: 16 decks
- Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior: 3 decks
Often played with Shield Bearer
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.