Pointed Discussion

"Bands". . . Nuff Said

Gaaaahhhh. Banding...should've been so cool and elegant, ends up being a convoluted mess of rules idiosyncracies and reminder text.

What a waste of a good name.I like the art tho

See comments on the other members of this cycle.

One day banding will come back with tons of support and this card will be revered among the Power 16 along with its brothers and shelkin brownie.

Banding in black? 5/5

From what I can tell, this cycle was SUPPOSED to be the justification for such otherwise (and potentially still, despite the initial scheme) low-wattage legends as The Lady of the Mountain and Tobias Andrion. Andrion's advantage over Serra Angel and Air Elemental was that once you got the Cathedral of Serra and/or Seafarers' Quay out, he'd have banding, every turn (not every other turn like with Helm of Chatzuk, not to mention the banding would be for more than just one creature). Very selective banding, yes, but it WAS within the adventurers' party (q.v. D&D personal campaign inspirations); the Cathedral & Co. were where the adventurers met and formed that party. In fact, extrapolating from the whole situation with Andrion, I think the original intent was that you were EXPECTED to use these lands to create the adventuring party, and thus bring the legends to their intended potential. Very strictly top-down design, but I think the problem was just overestimating how powerful banding was.

Perfect for a Dethklok themed deck!

Should have been "All Black Creatures gain banding with other Black creatures" and still had a mana ability. Then this card would have truly been worthy of its name.

I'm sure that art was on a death metal album. Waste of perfectly good art and name.

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite Citadel in the store.

You would think with a name like "Unholy Citadel", it'd actually do something badass, or even remotely useful. But that is simply not the case.