Trample and Disappearing Blockers
Asked by FearenRehnet 8 years ago
If an AEtherling blocks an attacking Worldspine Wurm, but then proceeds to exile itself to avoid damage, how much damage goes through to the player with the AEtherling?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
All 15.
If an attacking creature is blocked and the blocking creature is removed from combat prior to combat damage, the attacking creature remains blocked. Normally, this would mean that the attacking creature deals no damage to the player (because it's still considered blocked for the rest of combat) and no damage to any creatures (because none of the blocking creatures assigned to it remain in combat).
However, trample allows the attacking player to assign lethal damage to each blocking creature before assigning the remainder to the defending player. If there are no blocking creatures (either because none were declared or because they were all removed from combat), then the attacking player can assign all of the trampler's damage to the defending player.
April 17, 2016 10:29 a.m.
Gidgetimer says... #3
All fifteen will trample over. Damage is assigned and dealt as a turn based action in the combat damage step. Players do not receive priority between damage being assigned and dealt. So to avoid the damage the player with the AEtherling must have flickered it at the end of declare blockers, before damage is assigned.
acbooster says... #1
All the damage goes through. When something with trample is dealing damage, it only needs to deal lethal damage before going onto the next target. Since there's nothing in front of it after AEtherling exiles itself, it needs to deal 0 damage to assign lethal to the blockers. Since there're no more blockers, all 15 damage will go through to the defending player.
April 17, 2016 10:28 a.m.