Treacherous Link and player combat damage triggers

Asked by Coward_Token 5 years ago

A 0/1 creature enchanted with Treacherous Link gets blocked by a 1/1 creature enchanted with Sixth Sense. Will Treacherous Link's replacement effect cause the active (and attacking) player to take combat damage from the blocking creature, thus triggering Sixth Sense and letting the defending player draw a card?

Caerwyn says... Accepted answer #1

Redirected damage does not change the type of damage. Since, in this case, the source is combat damage, it remains combat damage when redirected onto the creature's controller.

For your reference, Rule 614.9:

Some effects replace damage dealt to one creature, planeswalker, or player with the same damage dealt to another creature, planeswalker, or player; such effects are called redirection effects. If either creature or planeswalker is no longer on the battlefield when the damage would be redirected, or is no longer a creature or planeswalker when the damage would be redirected, the effect does nothing. If damage would be redirected to or from a player who has left the game, the effect does nothing.

(emphasis added)

August 29, 2018 4:42 p.m.

Coward_Token says... #2

Yes, that's what I thought. I guess it doesn't matter that the Oracle version of Treacherous Link doesn't explicitly label its ability as redirection? ("All damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature is dealt to its controller instead.")

August 29, 2018 4:50 p.m.

Caerwyn says... #3

Wizards phased out the word redirect when they cleaned up a lot of the Oracle text. Redirection of damage is a subtype of replacement effects (Rule 614). With modern oracle language there are a couple different words used to delineate replacement effects, including the word "instead" (Rule 614.1a).

To ensure language was very clear and consistent between different subcategories of replacement effects, the old redirect language was updated to use "instead" instead.

August 29, 2018 5:17 p.m. Edited.

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