I have a question about attacking with creatures.
Asked by tonycheat9 9 years ago
Hi! What if I attack with my Courser of Kruphix and my opponent blocks with 2 Burning-Tree Emissary. I then go and choose the order of blocks... Since my Courser of Kruphix did 2 damage to 1 of the Burning-Tree Emissary, does this mean Courser of Kruphix uses up the 2 dmg already so it will deal 0 damage to the second Burning-Tree Emissary, then the 2nd Burning-Tree Emissary will kill the Courser of Kruphix and the 2nd Burning-Tree Emissary lives?
Epochalyptik says... #2
Yes.
A creature only assigns as much combat damage as it has power. It can't assign more than that, and it must assign all of it.
December 23, 2014 10:58 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Also, "attacking with creatures" is redundant. You can only attack with creatures.
December 23, 2014 10:58 p.m.
Though bear in mind, while it can only assign as much damage as it has power, it only needs to assign enough damage to a given blocker to be lethal damage under normal circumstances.
So while your Courser deals 2 damage to the first Emissary, and then has no damage left to assign, so the second Emissary lives having taken no damage, in your second example, if the Stormbreath dragon were blocked by say, a 1/1, a 2/2 and another 2/2, and you chose as your damage assignment order 2/2 -> 2/2 -> 1/1, the Stormbreath would only be required to assign 2 damage to the first blocker, and would still have 2 power worth of combat damage left to assign to the second blocker, which would be enough to kill both. It wouldn't deal any damage to the third blocker since it has run out of how much combat damage it can assign.
tonycheat9 says... #1
So I guess what I mean by my question is, if I'm attacking with a Stormbreath Dragon and my opponent blocks with 2 or 3 creatures... Does the Stormbreath Dragon deal only 4 of its damage to 1 of the creatures then 0 to the rest, because it used the 4 damage on the first creature it attacked
December 23, 2014 10:57 p.m.