Untap that creature" but you won't get the older cards like Threaten itself that says "Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn." They've got different oracle text because the untapping and control changing happen in different orders. For example if you're looking for Threaten effects you could look at how it's templated recently, like say on Portent of Betrayal or Zealous Conscripts, and search for "gain control of target creature until end of turn. A lot of the time you can't just search Gatherer or for rules text because it's slightly different. In the example I just gave, you would not only survive but stand to gain 4,000,000 life in the process.I do think it would be cool to have some sort of "Magic card thesaurus" to find similar effects. through Splinter Twin and Deceiver Exarch combo), and you wish to survive and kill all those creatures, I encourage you to look at Engulfing Slagwurm which has a kind of "Super Deathtouch" which just kills any creature that blocks or becomes blocked by it, giving you life equal to those creatures toughness. If your opponent has 1,000,000 attackers (e.g. Next, you choose the order of those blockers (just as before, the controller of each creature declares the order in which it's damage is dealt), and when the damage step comes assign lethal damage in that order, killing 2 of the 5/5s and leaving 3 standing to then finish your creature.ĭeathtouch makes any damage assigned lethal damage, however just as a 0/4 creature with curiosity deals no damage to a player and hence its controller does not draw a card, so too a creature with deathtouch assigning 0 damage to a creature cannot destroy that creature. In the second scenario, the result is very similar, all creatures that can, must block your first strike deathtouch creature. In your example, you would kill the first 2 3/3s and then the rest would survive to kill your 2/2. As you would expect any remaining creatures then deal damage to your creature as normal. When all creatures have no more damage to assign, the damage step ends, any creatures assigned lethal damage die and combat progresses. This means with a 2/2 first strike deathtouch creature, you can assign lethal damage to the first 2 creatures in the order you declared. The addition of deathtouch means that lethal damage is 1 damage for any creature, including indestructible and regenerated creatures. When this is done, and play progresses to the combat damage step (for creatures with first strike), you must then assign lethal damage to each creature in the order you chose earlier. When your declare your First Strike Deathtouch creature as a blocker for multiple attackers, you must choose the order in which your blocker will deal damage to those creatures (the owner of a creature chooses the order it's damage is dealt to creatures it attacks or blocks). See rules 510.1c–d.ħ04.5h If a creature has toughness greater than 0, and it’s been dealt damage by a source with deathtouch since the last time state-based actions were checked, that creature is destroyed. Without the first strike as long as you have 1 power for all attacking or blocking creatures you would be able to take them out as well.ħ02.2b Any nonzero amount of combat damage assigned to a creature by a source with deathtouch is considered to be lethal damage, regardless of that creature’s toughness. Using a card such as Giant Growth would allow your creature to live assuming it has both first strike and death touch. I say a 5/1 because toughness can't be 0 and you must be able to deal at least 1 damage to all blocked or blocking creatures. In your scenario, your creature is only a 2/2, and so even with a team of blockers, only two damage can be shared among them.īased on your scenario's here is the change needed to leave your creature alive yet destroy all blocking or attacking creatures: your Entangler must be at least a 5/1. On the plus side, an attacker with deathtouch only needs to assign one damage to each blocker. For deathtouch to have an effect, you must do damage to a creature. You would only be able to destroy two of the blocking creatures.