Chatzuk, Mighty Guitarist

Banding is the mechanic Wizards has spent decades trying to bury: a combat keyword so byzantine its own reminder text jokes about asking around until you find someone who knows how it works. That history is the entire point of this design. Rather than reprint banding as a quirk, this card treats it as an archetype, building an aggressive engine that only pays out when creatures with banding attack together. The cost reduction is what makes that plausible; discounting your banding creatures by solves the deckbuilding problem that always killed banding tribal, which is that the mechanic never appeared on enough cheap bodies to matter. The attack trigger then rewards committing multiple creatures to a single band with a scaling pump that grows quadratically with band size: three attackers each swing at +3/+3, four at +4/+4, and the numbers spiral from there. It is a rare instance of a mechanic being resurrected not for nostalgia but because someone found the geometry underneath it worth exploiting. Banding's actual combat rules (the attacking player assigning damage from blocked bands, the ability to soak up a blocker without trading) become a genuine second axis here rather than trivia, since the pump keeps the band's bodies large enough that opponents cannot profitably block into them. Whether the payoff justifies assembling a critical mass of banding creatures is a separate question, but as a piece of mechanical archaeology, it takes the game's most notorious dead keyword and gives it a reason to attack in force.