Glissa Sunslayer Bug
Glissa Sunslayer and counters. Opponent Glissa had one +1/+1, declared as attacker. I double blocked with a 5/5 Gala Greeter, and 9/9 Ridgescale Tusker, and despite only having 5 first strike damage, killed both of my creatures and did not take any damage
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beezknots#05721 commented
Despite the guy constantly commenting it has first strike and deathtouch, you’re absolutely right. The card is a 3/3, meaning it should do 3 damage as first strike and anything else blocking it dies from deathtouch but not subject to the first strike that is already used up. In this case you have the +1/+1 so the first 4 damage is first strike. Since it’s death touch your first blocked creature instantly dies, your second creature was large enough to kill it no matter which he chose to block first, but your second creature would also die along with it due to the deathtouch. I know you understand this, but the clown who keeps commenting seems to have no clue. The card is broken.
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[Deleted User] commented
Not a bug. Glissa Sunslayer has Deathtough. Creatures with Deathtouch need to only deal 1 damage to a creature to kill it.
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2syndeton4u#86833 commented
I had several token creatures with a +1 counter and a transformed wedding announcement. I first blocked with a 3/3 and 2/2 token, both got destroyed without Glissa Sunslayer of the enemy dying. The next turn I blocked with three 3/3 tokens (+1 from wedding announcement and +1 from counter) and again Glissa Sunslayer killed all 3, which was as I noticed due to the fact that it dealt 1 damage to *each* creature, while it naturally has deathtouch and first strike.
I have never heard of such a rule or mechanic, that you can distribute the damage arbitrarily amongst all blockers. The blocking rules I am aware of are such, that the attacker can only determine the order in which blocking creatures are attacked, and the first in the queue will absorb as much damage as possible, then the same is true for the next and next creature.
With normal blocking rules, Glissa Sunslayer should have dealt 3 damage to the first 3/3 creature with first strike, killing it. Then after first strike, it should have been killed by the second 3/3 creature.
The enemy had no enchantments or anything of the sort that would explain this behavior. I checked all permanents thoroughly after the match ended.
It happened just now in unranked Standard Play.
This is a serious bug.
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[Deleted User] commented
Glissa Sunslayer has deathtouch