What happens if an attacking band is blocked by one or more creatures with banding?
Asked by Yesterday 4 years ago
Yeah. Sorry. It's a question about banding.
As I understand it:
If an attacking band becomes blocked by one or more creatures, the attacking band's controller decides how the defending creatures divide out their damage rather than the defending player. If one or more creatures with banding ((or 'bands with other'), in some combination of creatures that would be able to attack as a band (if they were attacking)) blocks, then the blocking creatures' controller chooses how the attacking creatures divide their damage among the blockers, rather than the attacking creatures' controller.
Please correct me if I'm wrong so far, but this is just my understanding of Banding.
My question is, what happens if an attacking band is blocked by blocking creatures with some iteration of banding? It doesn't actually seem to be covered in the 'Banding' subsection of the comprehensive rules. Do both players just decide how their opponent's creatures divide their damage, with no need for further explanation?
I mean, I guess that makes sense. It's just kinda weird. But then, that's Banding all over.
Caerwyn says... Accepted answer #1
You are correct--each person will be choosing how their opponents' creatures assign damage. Nothing in the Banding rules modifies how you assign damage for your own creatures; it only modifies how damage is assigned for the opposing person's creatures.
So, Attacker's band modifies how Defender's band deals damage; Defender's band modifies how Attacker's deals damage. Thus each controls the other's damage assignment.
May 18, 2019 10:23 p.m.