Tapped Creatures take No Damage?

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

So recently I was told that tapped creatures take no damage. Does that mean that you could attack with 1,000,000 100/100 creatures and I could just assign a {Defender of the Gateless} to block, tap the Defender and nothing happens? Where does the damage go? It seems too unfair.

[Millionlittlee]

this is a lie tapped creatures take damage

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

Thank you! I thought that person was lying, it didn't make any sense to me either.

Also I found a page that says that tapped blockers do deal damage:
"Tapped Blockers
Tapped blockers now deal combat damage just like untapped blockers do; you can no longer tap a blocking creature to prevent its combat damage."

http://community.wizards.com/forum/faqs-and-reference/threads/1154021

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

That's good to know.

Yeah, I know. They should have just simplified the whole thing and said blocking causes a creature to tap.

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

To Noblellama-Thanks but we figured it out, the guy was just lying to me and few other people agreed with him because they didn't realize the change in rules.

To Tasby-I realize that blocking not tapping has other benefits but if they were looking to simplify the game the best place would be to start right there and say "blocking causes you to tap".

[Double-O-Scotch]

Blocking doesn't cause you to tap. Regenerating causes you to tap.

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

I realize that blocking doesn't cause tapping. I am saying that it should if they wanted to simplify the game.

[Double-O-Scotch]

I don't think it would simplify it at all...lol... But I play a lot of multiplayer and if that were the case, games would get pretty dumb, quickly😉

[Destore117]

Wait...tapped creatures may block?

[TrollinOtter]

No they can't unless u untapped them with an ability and yes they still take damage

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

I asked MaRo on Blogatog, as of 6th Edition tapped creatures both give and receive damage while blocking.

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

6th changed so many things...

I miss mana burn sometimes...

Its funny you say that because the other day my dad (who played from Alpha to Dissension) still didn't realize that mana burn was gone so he thought that some of the mana ramp cards were horrible.

[DylanW18]

I started in October last year lol tell me what mana burn is please

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

I started in October last year lol tell me what mana burn is please

If there is unused mana in your mana pool, it deals damage to you

[DylanW18]

That sounds terrible. Whyyyyy