Blocking with two creatures
Asked by Amarin1492 12 years ago
I asked a similar question earlier, but got conflicting answers.
How exactly does blocking one enemy creature with two of your creatures work? Do you chose which creature blocks first, or is all damage assigned at the same time?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
If you want clarification, just ask for clarification in the original thread. Don't post a new question.
The attacking player will determine the damage assignment order - the order in which the attacking creature will assign damage to its blockers. Before the attacking creature can assign combat damage to a blocker, each blocker before that one in the DAO must have been assigned lethal damage.
Once damage assignments are complete, combat damage is dealt simultaneously.
The defending player has no damage assignment choices unless a single blocker is blocking multiple attackers. In that case, the process works for the blocker blocking multiple attackers in much the same way as it does for an attacker blocked by multiple blockers.
hungerwolf says... #1
You choose which creatures block which attackers. If you choose two, the blocked creatures controller gets to choose which order that creature deals combat damage. The blocked creature must deal lethal damage to deal its damage to the next blocker. If it would kill both, the damage is all done at the same time. If not, the controller of the blocked creature decides which one it deals damage to, and the other blocker (or possibly both) survives.
January 18, 2014 2 a.m.