How does blocking as a band interact with creatures that have specific blocking requirements?

Asked by Yesterday 6 years ago

Sorry, another banding question.

The defending player has an Old Fogey on the battlefield and five other Game-Trail Changeling dinosaurs on the battlefield, so can block as a band.

If the attacking player has a Brontotherium and Provokes one of the defending player's creatures, can the defending player still block as a band including that creature?

Can Battlefront Krushok be blocked by a band of creatures? If not, I assume a band of creatures can block a creature with Menace like Boggart Brute?

Or if so, what exactly happens if Nacatl War-Pride is blocked by a band? And if not, I assume that the defending player would be unable to block as a band because each creature would have to individually block a different token copy of Nacatl War-Pride?

Neotrup says... Accepted answer #1

Creatures don't block as a band, rather they only attack as a band. Normal rules for blocking apply to creatures with banding. If a creature with banding blocks, even if it's blocking alone, it's controller decides how the attacking creature assigns combat damage. Normally this isn't relevant for a single blocker, but it means Benalish Hero can block Blightsteel Colossus alone and absorb the full 11 damage so none tramples over. For a creature with bands with other it does need to be blocking with at least one other creature of that type in order to choose how the attacking creature assigns combat damage, so if some rule is preventing more than one creature from blocking, that will not happen. Even with bands with other, you are not blocking as a band, its still just blocking with multiple creatures as the rules already allow.

May 22, 2017 1:52 p.m.

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