Can I sacrifice a creature after blocking
Asked by goodair 9 years ago
Using Sakura-Tribe Elder as an example. My friend told me that you can not sac it after blocking anymore. The way I thought it worked was if I chose to sac it, I prevent the damage as if it was blocked, but the elder does not deal damage back to the blocked creature
Epochalyptik says... #2
@AllAroundGeek: Your answer is mostly correct, but note that sacrificing a creature is not the same as destroying it.
November 24, 2014 6:03 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #4
Your friend might be confusing this with the fact that you can't "put combat damage on the stack" and then sacrifice the creature before the damage is actually dealt. That line of play doesn't work anymore.
AllAroundGeek says... Accepted answer #1
After a creature becomes block, it remains blocked for the rest of combat, no matter what happens to the blocking creature. The damage will only go though to the player if the attacking creature has trample. And the blocking creature that got destroyed will not deal combat damage.
November 24, 2014 5:58 p.m.