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10 months ago ::
Aug 07, 2012 - 9:12AM
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I recently used this card against an opponent who had 5 creatures in play. Since my creature gets trample, does the leftover battle damage travel to my opponents life points for each individual creature that my opponent defends with, or is it a total from the entire attack? I'll try to illustrate 2 scenarios.
#1
I attack with a 3/3 creature. I use Revenge of the Hunted on it. It becomes a 9/9. My opponent must block with five 1/1 creatures. Each time my opponent's creature blocks, it prevents 1 damage and then the remaining 8 damage goes to his life points. Since there are five creatures blocking, the total damage to his life points becomes 40.
#2
Same attack, however all of my opponent's creatures block at the same time. Each creature blocks 1 damage, which brings the total damage to my opponent's life points to 4.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 07, 2012 - 9:16AM
#2
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Date Joined:
Mar 10, 2010
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#1: This is not a legal scenario. An attacking or blocking creature assigns its combat damage all at once. Your 9/9 does NOT deal 9 damage to each blocking creature. It divides 9 damage among them and since it has trample, it can send the leftover damage to the player. All attacks are declared at once, all blocks are declared at once, exactly one time per combat. So you must assign at least 1 damage to each 1/1 (lethal damage) if you want to send any to the player. In all likelihood, the player takes 4. Not 40...
#2 is how combat ACTUALLY works.
Sean Stackhouse
Level Two Judge (Yay!)
Maine
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10 months ago ::
Aug 07, 2012 - 9:17AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 19, 2003
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Scenario 1 is impossible: all blocks are simultaneous. Your creature will assign 9 points of damage among the blocking creatures and the defending player. Most likely, you'll want to assign 1 damage to each creature and 4 damage to the defending player, but other distributions of damage are legal too. All you have to obey is:
- The first blocking creature in the damage-assignment order must be assign lethal damage before the 2nd creature is assigned damage, and so on.
- All blocking creatures must be assigned lethal damage before you assign damage to the defending player (if you want to assign damage to the defending player).
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