Ambush
Homelands — Common
Instant
Sets Ambush has been printed in:

Homelands — Common
Instant
Sets Ambush has been printed in:

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Sorcery
Creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain alpha strike until end of turn. (A creature with alpha strike has first strike as long as it's blocking or being blocked by a creature that comes after it alphabetically.)
Creature — Human Soldier (1/1)
: Icatian Infantry gains first strike until end of turn.
: Icatian Infantry 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 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.)
Creature — Human Soldier (1/1)
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.)
Whenever Icatian Skirmishers attacks, all creatures banded with it gain first strike until end of turn.
Instant // Sorcery
Response deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
Resurgence
Creatures you control gain first strike and vigilance until end of turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Enchantment
: For each attacking creature without flying, its controller may pay . If that player doesn't, creatures you control blocking that creature gain first strike until end of turn.
Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter (4/4)
: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample 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 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.)
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