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Once all those blocking creatures are assigned lethal damage, any remaining damage is assigned as its controller chooses among those blocking creatures and the player or planeswalker the creature is attacking. If an attacking creature with deathtouch and trample becomes blocked, the attacking creature first assigns damage to the creature(s) blocking it.Each creature Acidic Slime deals damage to is destroyed. Acidic Slime can assign 1 damage to the Wurm and 1 damage to the Mastodon, or 2 damage to the Wurm.

Example: The damage assignment order of an attacking Acidic Slime (a 2/2 creature with deathtouch) is Spined Wurm (a 5/4 creature) then Siege Mastodon (a 3/5 creature) then Runeclaw Bear (a 2/2 creature).

If a creature with deathtouch blocks or is blocked by multiple creatures, everything works exactly the same way with one exception: assigning even 1 of that creature's damage to a creature is considered to be lethal damage. It can't assign combat damage to one of those creatures unless each creature that precedes that creature in its order is assigned lethal damage. The creature then assigns its combat damage to those creatures according to the damage assignment order announced for it.

If a creature (whether it has deathtouch or not) blocks or is blocked by multiple creatures, those creatures must be put into damage assignment order during the declare blockers step.

702.2f Multiple instances of deathtouch on the same object are redundant.

702.2e If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had deathtouch.

702.2d The deathtouch rules function no matter what zone an object with deathtouch deals damage from.

702.2c Any nonzero amount of combat damage assigned to a creature by a source with deathtouch is considered to be lethal damage for the purposes of determining if a proposed combat damage assignment is valid, regardless of that creature’s toughness.

702.2b A creature with toughness greater than 0 that’s been dealt damage by a source with deathtouch since the last time state-based actions were checked is destroyed as a state-based action.Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths introduced deathtouch counters.įrom the Comprehensive Rules (April 14, 2023- March of the Machine) Now that deathtouch is keyworded, R&D no longer creates variants. Its now secondary in green, because R&D found that black both had more need for it and had more flavorful ways to express it creatively. This ability was primary in both black and green for a while. At the time of keywording it was still a triggered keyword ability it changed to its current status as a static ability associated with a new state-based action with Magic 2010 and new damage assignment rules with Magic 2011. Technically, it gained evergreen status with Tenth Edition but was first featured in a core set with Magic 2010. The keyword was introduced in Future Sight, as a preview for Lorwyn, in which it featured more prominently. Similar abilities to deathtouch, always triggered, had been spelled out on earlier creatures, the earliest being Thicket Basilisk from Alpha, hence R&D's pre-keyword name for the ability being " basilisk". Deathtouch counter from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths