Trample - death

[Claude-André Mayor]

When I attack with a Trample creature like Ball Lightning 6/1 trample and
my creature is blocked and dead by a 1/1 creature. Does my Ball Ligthning
make dommage to the player ?

Thanks

Claude

[Ingo Warnke]

Claude-André Mayor (cam...@iprolink.ch) wrote:
: When I attack with a Trample creature like Ball Lightning 6/1 trample and

: my creature is blocked and dead by a 1/1 creature. Does my Ball Ligthning
: make dommage to the player ?

Sure. (Unless the 1/1 has first strike).
The damage dealing of combat is simultanious, so the 6 damage land on the
blocker and 1 damage lands at the Ball Lightning at the same time. Assuming
that nothing gets prevented, the damage will soon become successfully dealt.
Now side effects of damage happen. One such effect is trample: it makes all
damage that is in excess of the toughness 'spill over' to the player. So
5 damage get redirected from the the blocker to the defending player. Then
lethal damage is checked (where the blocker and the Ball Ligthning go to
the grave or get regenerated) and after this the 5 points of trample
damage are handled in a separate DP step.

Ingo Warnke

[Chris Patterson]

> When I attack with a Trample creature like Ball Lightning 6/1 trample
and
> my creature is blocked and dead by a 1/1 creature. Does my Ball
Ligthning
> make dommage to the player ?

As long as the 1/1 creature does not have first strike, the trample
damage is delivered to your opponent. If the 1/1 creature has first
strike, your trampler doesn't live long enough to trample.

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Chris Patterson
c...@ix.netcom.com