I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay. So today is a topic inspired by BlogTog, my blog. So we were talking about banding.

It's a creature keyboard mechanic that came out in Alpha that we do not do anymore. And there's a lot of discussion about it,

and so I thought I would talk a bit about it.

For starters, I thought I'd explain what it is,

because there's a lot of people apparently don't know what banding is.

Because we haven't done banding since 1996, I believe.

So we've not done banding in a while.

So first, I want to explain what banding is.

Talk a little bit about sort of creature keywords, and then I'll explain why we don't do banding anymore.

And hopefully that will take up 30 minutes.

Okay.

So let's start at the beginning.

What is banding?

So banding was an ability found on mostly white creatures,

although there was a rare green creature in Alpha. And here's what banding means.

In certain situations on attack or block, they're different. Part of the reasons banding is

confusing, you can create a band. What a band is is a bunch of creatures that are banded together,

and what that means is they must attack or block, if they attack, they must be blocked

together, meaning if you block any one of them, you are blocking all of them. And on defense,

all of them have to block a single creature together.

Well, why would you want to do that?

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