Battering Ram
Artifact Creature — Construct
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.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Introductory Two-Player Set
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24153
Battering Ram is a 1/1 for two mana that phases out at the start of your upkeep and gains banding while attacking — a mechanic so obsolete it appears in virtually no competitive lists. The card is a historical artifact, not a playable, and there is no format today where Battering Ram is the right choice for your slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Battering Ram is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Commander the card offers a 1/1 body, a phasing trigger that removes it from combat math on your opponents' turns, and banding — a mechanic with so few relevant interactions in the modern card pool that it generates no meaningful advantage. Legacy and Vintage have access to every broken artifact ever printed; Battering Ram competes with none of them. Pauper is the one format where creatures are evaluated on tighter margins, but even there a two-mana 1/1 with no immediate impact is well below rate.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Battering Ram isn't currently available in this listing, but copies routinely turn up in bulk commons and bargain bins — expect to pay under a dollar, often under a quarter. It is not worth seeking out for gameplay; if you want it for a cube curiosity or a banding-themed collection piece, the buy-in is trivial.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.