Battering Ram
Introductory Two-Player Set 48 • common
- Set
- Introductory Two-Player Set
- Collector number
- 48
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jeff A. Menges
- Market price
- €0.12
What it does
At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.
By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Battering Ram card debuted in the 1996 Magic: The Gathering Introductory Two-Player Set, a product designed by Wizards of the Coast to streamline the onboarding process for new players. As the game grew in complexity, this set served as a simplified entry point, providing fixed decks that focused on basic mechanics and core creature types rather than the randomized booster packs that defined the rest of the game's distribution model.
The artwork was provided by Jeff A. Menges, one of the original illustrators for the game's Alpha set. His design for the Battering Ram emphasizes the utilitarian and brutal nature of the card's function as a siege engine. By choosing an aesthetic that leaned into traditional fantasy illustration styles, Menges helped establish the grounded, dark-fantasy visual identity that defined early Magic card sets during the mid-nineties.
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