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War Elephant

Multiverse ID: 2864

War Elephant

Comments (11)

Weretarrasque
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0) (4 votes)
Ironic, because a creature with Banding and a 2/2 creature with trample are, by themselves, quite pointless.
FragNutMK1
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Banding with trample is a good concept, this creature may seem a little overpriced for the size though.
Vizzerdrix80
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
Dies to a wolf token. How does this happen.
niallcmurray86
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (3 votes)
Pretty neat if you wanted to make a banding deck, especially now with all the white removal.
Test-Subject_217601
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Oddly enough he can only effectively band with other copies of himself, unless you want to give up the trample.
bagilis
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (3 votes)
got 4 of them. Interesting back in the days
NoobOfLore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Well, if it attack-bands with another creature, the other creature can deal the lethal damage, and it can just stomple on over.
Salient
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Awesome flavor text marred by a subpar card, or a sub-par card made much more interesting by its flavor text?

(Is the war elephant's glass half-empty or half full?)
Corey_bayoudragonfly
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
@Test-Subject: Nope, rule 702.19g. Creatures in a band don't share or lose abilities. So basically you can trample this guy over (provided you kill the blocker with another of your banded fellas). And since the bander gets to distribute damage, he usually does *not* die to wolf token.
yousquiddinme
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
White used to get trample, huh?

Funny.
Traius
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
costs too much mana. Rule changes have made his band trample better, but it still is way over-costed.