Formation price & price history

What Formation costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Type: Instant
Mana cost: {1}{W}
Rarity: rare
Latest printing: Ice Age
First printed: 1995-06-03
Commander legality: Legal

Formation price today

$0.93

€0.54

30 days -2.1%

as of 2026-10-05

All-time high: $1.01
All-time low: $0.72
1-year average: $0.87
Data since: 2025-07-24

Formation has traded between $0.72 and $1.01, averaging $0.87 over the past year.

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Decks running it

of 891,084 commander decks, 0.0%.

Median deck price

$174

most of those decks cost $75.25 to $1,210.

Median power level

4.2

runs 3.5 to 5.5 across those decks.

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