What Players Get WRONG About The Foundations Rule Change

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With MTG Foundations coming out soon there is an important rules change to combat being made. Damage assignment order is being removed entirely and this will impact all formats. I'll explain everything about this 2024 rules change with some examples for you.

I got over 1000 comments on the last video and wanted to answer common questions people had about deathtouch, trample, banding and other corner cases.

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Foundations Combat Step Rules Change Full article:

0:00 Foundations Rules Announcement
0:41 Combat Assignment Step Walkthrough
2:28 Deathtouch
2:47 Trample
3:14 Banding
5:58 Damage Amplification
6:37 On Hit Triggers

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One thing I learned from this rules change is how many people had no idea how deathtouch works.

thatstranger

the thing with banding is that if you put banding in your deck, you have to explain to the other players what banding does everytime you play with someone new

victortayupe

I think I noticed that banding got simpler to explain with this change. Once someone gets the concept "attacking player assigns damage how they want", it's not much of a stretch to say "banding player assigns damage how they want"

michaelturner

"This damage assignment step is being removed entirely" is the phrase tripping the most people up I think. Damage assignment is still a step that happens, you just don't have to put blockers in an order anymore.

Azeria

Recently my group has decided to allow non-legendary, and even non-creature commanders as long as you're given the thumbs up by each individual member. I'm building a deck with "Defensive Formation" as my commander, which is a 1 mana white enchant which basically gives all of your creatures banding while blocking. Building it has been a blast so far, and it seems like it's gonna be very fun to pilot.

jacobesterson

One thing this rules change does is restore how creatures like Pit Spawn and Voracious Cobra used to work to being what they were again.
Voracious Cobra has an ability similar to deathtouch, but because it isn't actually deathtouch, it didn't have the benefit it used to have but this rules change gives it back its ability to split its damage between two targets. Voracious Cobra is a 2/2 with first strike and whenever Voracious Cobra does damage to a creature destroy that creature.
Pit Spawn is a 6/4 with first strike and when this creature deals damage to a creature exile that creature. It got really nerfed by the 2010 rules change, but again this restores its potency.

There is a rules change they haven't done that they do need to do, and that is to alter the way deathtouch and trample interact, as it has overpowered trample by allowing it to ignore abilities of blockers such as protection, indestructability, and can't be damaged; as they are assigned one damage with the lethal damage rule with the rest of the damage trampling through even though this is illogical.

lightbearer

Yes that is canonically the sound a Blightsteel Colossus makes when attacking

MTGSimplified

Very good concise and well worded video, definitely deserves a lot more views than it has. Liking subbing and commenting so that the algorithm knows I enjoyed it!

jules

Thank you. The rules confuse me. I appreciate how simple you make them.

carlashirey

Thank you! The graphics really help explain

quixoticmoth

Honestly with how rarely the blocker order mattered even experienced players benefit from the change. It just was a mechanic that came up very rarely..

noneofyourbusiness

Thank you for explaining banding. I have been playing this game since torment and never understood what banding does.😅

fmatax

What about damage multipliers with trample? If a 2/2 with trample gets blocked by 2 2/2s and assign 2 damage to one creature, does it get multiplied to 4 and then trample over for 2?

QuarantinedCapricorn

I Love the vid how it was explained but i was expecting something more. during combat damage step.
1. does the defender have the ability to cast spell or activate ability?
2. does the attacker only have the opportunity to cast spell, activate an ability during damage step?

also a followup question on banding..
what if the attacker has double strike and trample and i block it with 1/1 banding

does the dmg tramples? since it will die from the 1st attack..

MadManVan

I've been playing MTG for 30 years and I have never assigned damage order, even at GPs, so I can't imagine this is a very well known rule. The change makes it much more intuitive.

meatrace