Benalish Infantry
Weatherlight 8 • common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Collector number
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Dan Frazier
- Market price
- $0.19
What it does
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.)
"My favorite part of getting into the infantry was getting out again."— Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*
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
Benalish Infantry was first released in 1997 as part of the Weatherlight expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a white creature card, it was designed to reflect the militaristic and disciplined nature of the nation of Benalia, a recurring human power in the game's Dominaria setting. The card features a classic 'flanking' mechanic, which was introduced in the Mirage block and revisited here to reward tactical combat positioning.
The artwork was created by illustrator Randy Elliott, who captured the stoic, armored aesthetic characteristic of the Benalish legions. In the context of the game's competitive environment at the time, the card was viewed as a solid, cost-effective common creature intended to bolster white aggro decks. It remains a notable example of the era's focus on structured tribal and flavor-based card design within the Wizards of the Coast development cycle.
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