Double Strike (Magic the Gathering)

Question

I have a 2/2 creature with double strike and my opponent has a 1/1 creature without first or double strike.

I attack with my 2/2. He blocks with his 1/1.

People say that, after the 2/2 kills the 1/1 because of the first strike, it will then assign 2 damage to the opponent because of the regular combat damage.

But everything on the Magic website's "Saturday School" says that once the 2/2 double strike creature kills the 1/1, it will assign no more combat damage unless the double strike creature has trample.

I'm thinking the Wizards of the Website is right but since it's from 2006 I just want to make sure. The Comprehensive Rules don't mention this scenario.

Link: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/satschoolarchive&term=double_strike

Answer 1

Actually, the double strike damage will not go through a creature and onto a player unless the creature with double strike also has trample.



It's basically like this: you attack a creature, the creature dies. the carcass is still there for you to cut a second time, unless you have trample and overrun them.



There was a funny sceneario involving a creature with double strike and trample being blocked by a creature that was indestructable during my Shadowmoor prerelease. Needless to say, it caused the game to be paused for about 15 minutes while the judge confronted each other. Finally, the head judge was forced to make a call and settle the matter once and for all. All in all, it was pretty amusing =D



Hope that helped.

Answer 2

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Double Strike (Magic the Gathering)

I have a 2/2 creature with double strike and my opponent has a 1/1 creature without first or double strike.



I attack with my 2/2. He blocks with his 1/1.



People say that, after the 2/2 kills the 1/1 because of the first strike, it will then assign 2 damage to the opponent because of the...

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I've never understood double strike before. I always thought it was you hit them like first strike, and then hit them again. So let's say you have a 3/3 with double strike and he is blocked by a 4/4. First you hit him for first strike(doing 3 damage and taking none), and then you both hit eachother like normal (you do 3 again and he does 4). So you've done 6 damage to him at this point and he has only done 4. That's what I think it is. If that is the rul, where you hit them once and then you hit him again, I would think it only aplies when you are blocked.

Answer 5

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Tyler, Damage does NOT reduce toughness. Double Strike only means that the creature deals damage in the first strike phase and the normal damage phase, it does not stack with first strike whatsoever. Both creatures will die in this case. Kwaz, you are doing it too, Damage DOES NOT reduce toughness. The creature will be a 4/6 with 3 damage marked on it, NOT a 4/3.

Answer 6

Doublestrike is first strike and normal striking combat damage. If the creature is blocked, then unless the doublestrike has trample, nothing gets through. Look at it this way, because the double strike creature has to assign damage to the creatures blocking it, it does so, but during the normal attack, there are no targets for it to damage, so the attack fizzles, like a spell would if it's target disappeared. Trample damage states that you must assign lethal damage to blocking creatures and any additional damage may be assigned to the opponent. So simply put, if a creature without trample is blocked, even if it doesn't assign damage, then nothing goes to the opponent.



Let's look at one more example without trample. Your 7/7 creature is attacking and I decided to block it with my 1/1 token. Before damage is dealt, I sacrafice that 1/1 token to my Nantuko Husk to pump the Husk up. The 7/7 creature was still blocked and still would deal me no damage during normal combat.



Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Double Strike = First Strike + non-First Strike. Multile instances of First Strike are redundant. Your Legionaire therefore does 3 First Strike damage and 3 non-First Strike damage. Both creatures die.

Answer 8

Double strike is first strike damage, and then regular combat damage. Since combat damage is assigned once per creature, the extra damage is negated from lack of having a proper target. (i.e., a creature big enough to block the double striker and live past first strike damage)