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Thermal Glider
Creature — Human Rebel
Flying, protection from red
Caerwyn on
7 years ago
Inserting myself into the conversation because I'm a big fan of Banding. To answer your question Bokamoso, yes, you could assign all damage to the Thermal Glider, even though it has protection.
Let's take two examples using Ball Lightning.
Example 1: You block Ball Lightning with Thermal Glider and nothing else. Ball Lightning's controller assigns two damage to the Thermal Glider, and one damage to the defending player due to trample. Thermal Glider does not actually take damage.
Example 2: You block Ball Lightning with Thermal Glider and Benalish Hero. As the defending player controlling a creature with banding, you get to determine how damage is assigned. You can assign all three damage to Thermal Glider, not only protecting your creatures from harm, but completely negating trample.
That's a pretty important point that has not been mentioned yet--Banding provides a complete defence to enemy creatures with Trample.
Bokamoso on
7 years ago
The description of banding according to the WOTC article does reveal it to be more powerful than I understood. My only reservation to reading the mechanic how I want to read it would be that the example given by the WOTC article includes a creature with protection. The reminder text for a creature with protection would read “cannot be… dealt damage…” Are you able to assign all damage to Thermal Glider in that example because protection is preventing it from actually receiving the damage? Martyr of Dusk does not have protection; can it still be assigned an amount of damage that is greater than it’s toughness?