If I block with life link do I gain life for its power or assigned damage. Thanks.
Assigned damage, which is usually power.
you gain life based on how much damage your lifelinked creature dealt.
Thank you. Is that for atacking to.
Like jester said whenever creature deals damage
But does your 3/3 lifelink deal 3 damage to their 1/1 attacker? Or just lethal damage?
it deals 3 damage which just happens to be lethal
The fun part with lifelink is what happens when it is blocked by something with regeneration and no damage stays on the blocking creature.
The lifelink creature still assigns damage and lifelink still triggers, even though the damage is removed.
However, if the blocker is sacrificed after blockers are declared but before damage is assigned you won't get to assign any damage and lifelink will not get to trigger.
Same goes for creatures with protection. Damage is prevented so no damage is actually dealt to the blocking creature and lifelink will not trigger.
:)
There is no damage dealt against a blocker with protection Wally. Lifelink will not trigger.
Quote from: Poof on April 28, 2012, 07:03:17 PM
There is no damage dealt against a blocker with protection Wally. Lifelink will not trigger.
I agree, my bad, I actually ment regeneration. Fixed what I wrote.
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Quote from: Wally on April 28, 2012, 06:49:36 PM
The fun part with lifelink is what happens when it is blocked by something with protection and no damage is dealt.
The lifelink creature still assigns damage and lifelink still triggers, even though the damage is prevented.
However, if the blocker is sacrificed after blockers are declared but before damage is assigned you won't get to assign any damage and lifelink will not get to trigger.
:)
CR615.1a Damage that is prevented doesn't happen. You gain no life and there is no damage event.
Just to be technical, lifelink doesn't trigger, it is a replacement effect. It replaces the event of "X deals damage" with "X deals damage and you gain that much life". It happens simulaneously, whereas triggered evens use the stack and can be responded to. This is actually how lifelink effects used to work.
If someone attacked with a 3/3 and a 2/2 and you have a 3/3 lifelinker and are at 1 life you can block their 3/3 with yours. In the olden days, the damage from the 2/2 would kill you before the lifelink would give you 3 life. Now it happens at the same time, before state is checked, and you'd take two and gain three, keeping you alive.
Just sayin'.
I hope I'm not discouraging people from trying to answer questions. You all should feel free. If I see any thing wrong, I'll chime in. 8)
No probs mate, I had just woken up and wrote the wrong thing. Fixed it now tho. :)
Thanks for the official word.
So in my example I have a {drogskol reaver} he is a 3/5 double strike against a 2/2 I would still gain six life. Thanks.
No you wouldn't the creature would be dealt three damage during first strike be killed and gain you 3 life. During regular combat damage there is nothing left for
Your reaver to hit.
Thank you clear as day. Sometimes when I play people it is a big question.
This is some thing that confuses me though if I'm not mistaken at one point wasn't life link a deal damage to player effect rather than to any creature or player?
Nope. Always been any damage that a {lifelink}ed creature deals is gained.