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Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Statistics.

Its now secondary in green, because RD found that black both had more need for it and had more flavorful ways to express it creatively.

Now that deathtouch is keyworded, RD no longer creates variants.

The creature then assigns its combat damage to those creatures according to the damage assignment order announced for it.

It cant assign combat damage to one of those creatures unless each creature that precedes that creature in its order is assigned lethal damage.

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 creatures damage to a creature is considered to be lethal damage.

Acidic Slime can assign 1 damage to the Wurm and 1 damage to the Mastodon, or 2 damage to the Wurm.

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.

However, since the creature has deathtouch, assigning even 1 damage to a creature is considered to be lethal damage.

It attacks a player and is blocked by Siege Mastodon (a 35 creature).

Its remaining damage may be assigned as its controller chooses between the Mastodon and the defending player.

Notably, the Wurm may assign 1 damage to the Mastodon and 6 damage to the defending player.

Since the Guard is being assigned lethal damage, the Wurms 6 damage may be assigned as its controller chooses between the Guard and the defending player.

Notably, the Wurm may assign all 6 damage to the defending player.

It doesnt matter which creatures damage is assigned first, as long as the final damage assignment follows all the applicable parameters.

That means theres no time to react between the time the creature is dealt damage and the time its destroyed.

If you want to put a regeneration shield on it, or sacrifice it for some effect, or anything else, you must do so before the damage is actually dealt.

In other words, if a spell or ability causes a card with deathtouch thats not on the battlefield to deal damage to a creature (like Selfless Exorcist s ability does, for example), that creature will be destroyed.

This isnt the same as damage dealt by a source that has changed zones; see below.

If the source has changed zones by then, its last existence in the zone it was expected to be in is checked to see if it had deathtouch at that time.

If that object deals damage to a creature, a single regeneration effect will still save it.

You mentioned there used to be nicknames for lifelink, vigilance, and haste before they were keyworded..

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Are we likely to ever see more of Thicket Basilisks ability.

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