Icatian Infantry

Creature - Human Soldier 1/1, W (1)
{1}: Icatian Infantry gains first strike until end of turn.
{1}: Icatian Infantry 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 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.)¹
"Never Surrender' -Motto carved into a fragment of an Icatian wall
Illus. Drew Tucker

Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]

• 10/1/2008: 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 dealt.
• 10/1/2008: A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
• 10/1/2008: Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
• 10/1/2008: If a creature with banding blocks, the defending player chooses how the blocked creature deals its combat damage. Creatures don't form "bands" on defense.

Format Legality	Legal in Vintage, Legacy Banned in Extended, Standard
Versions (4)	Fallen Empires #144 (Edward P. Beard, Jr.) Fallen Empires #145 (Christopher Rush) Fallen Empires #146 (Douglas Shuler) Fallen Empires #147 (Drew Tucker)
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