Shield Bearer
Creature — Human Soldier
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.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #22136
Shield Bearer is a 0/3 that gives an adjacent creature in a banded attack — narrow, slow, and replaceable by anything with reach or a relevant keyword. The banding mechanic is so rarely built around that Shield Bearer has no competitive home in any format.
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 |
Shield Bearer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as relevance. Banding almost never appears in optimized lists across any of these formats, and Shield Bearer offers nothing outside of that mechanic — no power, no toughness worth protecting, no ETB. In Commander, the 99-card singleton format with infinite room for better defensive creatures, it has no practical slot. Pauper is the one format where budget constraints occasionally surface oddities, but even there, a 0/3 for two mana with a deprecated combat keyword doesn't make the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Shield Bearer isn't currently available, but as a bulk common with no competitive demand, it almost certainly sits at or below $0.25. It's not worth tracking down unless you're completing a banding theme collection.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.