Double Strike

Delicious · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 565

Let's say you attack with a creature with double strike. and they block with a small token who doesn't have first strike. How does that work? does the first strike damage get dealt to the creature then you can assign damage to a planeswalker/player? or does all damage go to the blocking creature?

yggdr · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 1

Joker619 · Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 13

lets say he has a double striking trampler

Hardtrack · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 346

Then any damage bigger than the toughness can be assigned to the defending player. If there is no blocker left, that means all damage can be assigned to the player.

LoneWulf · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 162

Just a lil more on what Hardtrack said.

If you have a trampling double striker then you assign first strike damage to the creature and any trample damage to the player/planeswalker. Then during regular combat damage you could assign his full damage to the player/planeswalker.

This is assuming that the blocking creature didn't have protection from the attacking creature. If the blocker did have protection then during regular combat damage you would have to reassign "lethal" damage to the creature and trample over for whatever.