BUG (or UX/UI issue?): Indestructible targets not dying to -X/X AFTER taking damage
Reporting a bug OR a potential UX/UI-issue, if this is some weird nyance of the rules.
-X/-X is supposed to kill indestructible targets as soon as their toughness hits 0.
Indestructible targets take damage normally, they just don't get destroyed when their toughness hits 0 through damage.
However, if you have damaged an indestructible target first and then cast -X/-X on it, it will not die to the -X/-X even though even the client shows it's toughness as 0.
So either this is a bug OR UX/UI issue, meaning that the actual toughness to kill the target with -X/-X should be visible at all times.
In this situation indestructible targets taking damage should show the damage as "mini counters", but not touch the toughness.
Fex.#73575
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Rezzahan#77802
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Damage does not reduce toughness. Arena merely shows a reduced value in that spot (and claw marks to indicate that this is from damage), but the toughness remains unchanged. You cannot combine damage and -X/-X effects to kill an indestructible creture. You have to use enough -X/-X to bring down the toughness all the way down to 0 or less. Damage doesn't help here at all. Doing half and half results in a slightly les tough indestructible creature with lethal damage marked, and it survives.