Urza's Engine

Artifact Creature — Juggernaut

Trample

(3): Urza s Engine gains banding until end of turn.

(3): Attacking creatures banded with Urza s Engine gain trample until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

poutrel on [CW Banding] Metal Militia

5 years ago

Added a bunch of Elephant Graveyard, and a couple of Urza's Engine.

LordNazahn on Bands on Deck

7 years ago

Well the reason they gain first strike in my example is due to the text on Icatian Skirmishers as they give it to all creatures banding with him. And I see so use your commander as a giant sponge for damage so everyone else can trample through with an effect like Urza's Engine

PsionicFrost on Bands on Deck

7 years ago

DarkEclipse18 - So, banding is pretty simple if you think of it like this: It changes who, player wise, assigns damage, not how. So in the first example, the other creatures don't gain first strike, however, let's say the defending player blocks the band with a 9/5 creature:

You can assign 4 damage each to Urza's Engine and Mishra's War Machine and one to War Elephant while you assign combat damage to the 9/5 and trample over, dealing 4 to the player, killing their creature and sparing all of yours.

2) No redirection combo, just making their damage fizzle. If they swing with a 6/4, I can block with Commander Eesha and War Elephant, deal 4 to kill their creature and assign all 6 of the damage from their attacking creature to Eesha, making it fizzle.

LordNazahn on Bands on Deck

7 years ago

Ok, so I'm gonna assume you know how banding works because it seems confusingly fun and I have questions:

1) So War Elephant, Urza's Engine, Mishra's War Machine, and Icatian Skirmishers attack and band. Your opponent blocks with a 4/4. Basically I can have all Icatian do 1 damage, Elephant do 1 damage and Warmachine does 2 damage, all first strike because of Icatian's ability and banding. Then the Engine and Warmachine will get to trample over doing 3 damage to opponent AND the opposing creature does no damage to your creatures due to first strike?

Also if they didn't have first strike i can just direct all 4 damage to Warmachine, it takes the blow and lives and the band moves on?

2) How are you figuring the combo of hitting your commander with damage and then redirecting it?