flavorText: "As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said."\n—Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*
name: Pikemen
originalText: Banding, first strike
printings: 4BB, 4ED, 5ED, DRK, REN
text: First strike; 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.)
type: Creature — Human Soldier