Dealing direct damage with a sorcery from a creature's power while it having deathtouch should instantly kill the other?
Recently I did a game which I encountered what I think that should be a bug. My opponent had a creature 1/1 in game, with deathtouch, and he did a sorcery to give my creature an ammount of damage equal to his creature's power, since mine was a 4/4 it should have stayed alive but it died due to deathtouch "effect". Is this normal? Thanks in advance.
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Yes, nothing wrong there. Deathtouch wotks with combat damage and noncombat damage. When a creature is dealt damage from a source with deathtouch, it will be destroyed the next time state based actions are checked. Which, in the case of fight spells and bite spells as well as abilities that cause those, is right after that fight/bite. If the creature somehow survives that check, it will live, since deathtouch only works for the next time state based actions are checked.
Note, deathtouch even changes the rules for combat damage assignment. A deathtoucher can go through a whole line of blockers with 1 damage each and kill all that it deals damage to. With trample, what excess damage there is can even be assigned to the player/planeswalker/battle it attacked.