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if another player attacks me and i block with a creature with first strike
would it kill his creature and not mine if they are both a 2/2 ?

 

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Nicolya1980 wrote:

> if another player attacks me and i block with a creature with first strike
> would it kill his creature and not mine if they are both a 2/2 ?

Yep. First Strike means that your guy inflicts damage--and its opponent
suffers the consequences of that damage--before said opponent gets
to deal damage itself. In this case, the first strike damage kills it,
so it never gets to deal any damage.
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On 03 Sep 2004 02:50:51 GMT, Nicolya1980 <nicolya1980@aol.com> wrote:
>if another player attacks me and i block with a creature with first strike
>would it kill his creature and not mine if they are both a 2/2 ?

Yes.

If there are cretures with first strike (or double strike) involved, there
are two combat-damage steps, not one. In the first, _only_ creatures with
first strike or double strike assign combat damage and put it on the stack
- that's your 2/2. (That resolves, and kills his 2/2.)

In the second, any surviving attackers/blockers that _did not yet_ assign
combat damage get to do so, plus any that have double strike. His 2/2 did not
survive, so doesn't get to "hit back"; if it had been a 2/3, it would have
survived, and would kill your 2/2 in this step.

Dave
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