Yes, at least in the sense that the additional damage does successfully trample over a blocking creature. But that doesn’t mean you can’t manage to get this keyword combination with other effects. Since trample requires you to deal lethal damage to the creature before dealing trample damage to the opponent, a creature with both keywords means that you only have to deal one point of damage to the defending creature to destroy it before dealing the rest of the deathtouch/trample creature’s damage to the defending creature.īecause of this combination, R&D seem to avoid printing creatures with both trample and deathtouch naturally. How Does Deathtouch Work with Trample?ĭeathtouch has a very interesting interaction with trample. But, like I said, this is redundant and would have no effect on the damage calculations. Sometimes you can give a creature multiple instances of trample, like if you cast Crash the Ramparts on Colossal Dreadmaw. Trample does not stack, and multiple instances of it are redundant. If you block their 5/5 trampler with a 1/1 and a 2/2, they’ll need to assign lethal damage to both creatures before they can trample you. Yes, you can block an attacking trample creature with multiple of your own creatures. Can You Block Trample with Multiple Creatures? Trample has no effect when blocking, it’s only relevant when the trample creature is attacking. This means you just deal all of the attacking creature’s combat damage to the player instead. If you attack with a trample creature and your opponent blocks with a creature that’s removed before the combat damage step through something like a kill spell or a bounce effect, then that creature doesn’t require any damage to be dealt to be considered lethal. What if the Creature Blocking Trample Dies? Trample only says that you have to assign lethal damage to the blocking creature as a minimum in the combat damage step, but you could assign all the damage to the blocking creatures if you want to. Similarly, if you were instead blocked by a 1/1 and a 2/2, you’d have to deal one damage to the 1/1, two to the 2/2 and you would be left with one damage for the defending player.
If they block with a 2/2, you’d have to deal two damage to the blocking creature and then there’s only two excess damage left over for the opponent. If you attack with a 4/4 creature with trample and your opponent blocks with a vanilla 1/1, you deal one damage to the blocking creature to destroy it and three to the opponent. When you’re calculating trample damage, you have to look at the power of the attacking creature and the toughness of the blocking creature. Trample damage is the damage dealt to the player by an attacking creature after lethal damage has been dealt to all creatures blocking it.
It was reintroduced in Ninth Edition with new reminder text and has been a staple, and an evergreen mechanic, ever since! What is Trample Damage? It has since been in virtually all sets ever printed, taking a small break from core sets between Sixth Edition and Eighth Edition because designers worried it was too complex for beginners sets. Trample is one of the oldest keywords in Magic and has been around since the very first set, Alpha, in 1993, appearing on five cards there. “Excess combat damage” means the damage that would be dealt to the blocking creature beyond what’s required to destroy it. The modern trample reminder text you get on beginner sets reads, “This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it’s attacking.” The actual rules for this mechanic are deceptively simple. Decklist: Stonebrow Trample in CommanderĬraterhoof Behemoth | Illustration by Chris Rahn.Ohran Frostfang + Saryth, the Viper’s Fang.How Does Trample Work with Damage Modifiers Like Torbran?.Does “Prevent All Damage” Stop Trample?.
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