Random generator gave me Helm of Chatzuk and Island, colorshifting the Helm blue. Also, there are no uncommon slots in blue left, so I'm either making this simple, or powerful.

I've done banding, a few times, in Mashup:tG. I'm sure I'll do it again a few times... it can't be used as is, but it's on a healthy number of old cards. But a blue take on it is tough. Something that I haven't used before, and somehow I need to transalte an artifact into a blue card. Normally, that would mean 'make it an enchantment', but this activated ability only wants to affect one creature per turn. Rrrr...

After flipping things around for a while, I came up with this ability, using banding's "If you block one of the things, you somehow mysteriously blocked the flying creature that was banding with it" loophole. It isn't blue. I'm pretty aware that this is probably white or green. I just like the card, so I figured I'd post it. I'll probably come back to this card tomorrow and make something more color appropriate, moving this card out to the workbench in the process. It can hang out here for now, though.

Now a 1/2, because why the heck not.

1/2 for ? With an upside?

Yep. It won't break anything, because 1/2 is still weedy enough to not impact the battlefield much. White and green have been getting 1/2s for C for a while now, and Return to Ravnica gave it to all three other colours with just two cards - Deathrite Shaman and Nivmagus Elemental.

I really like this ability. It does evoke part of banding, and it's a nifty deterrent to the opponent attacking with, say, both flyers and nonflyers.