how does stuffy doll work MTG 2013?

Question

ok me and my friend are fighting about this and i need help
i have 4 stuffy dolls in my deck, an indestructable card that only has 1 toughness. My friend hits stuffy doll with a 16/16, and it says on its affect all damage done to it is redirected to a player , so he would lose, because 16 damage was redirected. But he said sense it only has one toughness, he would only take one damage. Im saying sense hes hitting it with 16 damage, and it doesnt has trample, he would take 16. can you please help because if im wrong id like to correct this.

Answer 1

1) Toughness is not a limit on the amount of damage a creature can take; it is a limit on the amount of damage required to Destroy that creature (normally). So in this situation, the Stuffy Doll is being hit for 16 damage, not 1 damage.



2) It doesn't technically redirect the damage. Redirected damage would never actually be applied to the Stuffy Doll. Stuffy Doll's ability just makes it so that when the Doll takes damage, that same amount of damage gets dealt to the player as well. As such, the damage is still sitting on the Doll, not that this is usually important. What can be important about this is that it makes the Doll the source of the damage dealt to the player, so if the Doll has something like Lifelink or Infect, those would apply.

Answer 2

Stuffy Doll Mtg

Answer 3

Well, the key here is the lack of Trample.



Without Trample, all damage will be dealt to the creature doing the blocking. With Trample, it'll be a choice of the player.



510.1d A blocking creature assigns combat damage to the creatures it's blocking. If it isn't currently blocking any creatures (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it assigns no combat damage. If it's blocking exactly one creature, it assigns all its combat damage to that creature. If it's blocking two or more creatures, it assigns its combat damage to those creatures according to the damage assignment order announced for it. This may allow the blocking creature to divide its combat damage. However, it can't assign combat damage to a creature that it's blocking unless, when combat damage assignments are complete, each creature that precedes that blocked creature is assigned lethal damage. When checking for assigned lethal damage, take into account damage already marked on the creature and damage from other creatures that's being assigned during the same combat damage step, but not any abilities or effects that might change the amount of damage that's actually dealt. An amount of damage that's greater than a creature's lethal damage may be assigned to it.

Answer 4

He's lying so he won't lose. Unless there is trample involved then all damage would be dealt to the Doll.