Damage Assignment After Spell played - Tarmogoyf (Reality Fracture)
I played a 4 damage instant to apply 4 damage to Tormogoyf (Reality Fracture Green Creature Mythic Rare). He has Toughness of 1+(Every spell type in graveyards). At the time of casting, there was only a sorcery, creature and land in graveyards. After casting my instant that does 4 damage, he should go to T0 and die before the card hits the graveyard to put an instant in the graveyard as well. So why did he live with 1 Toughness? Am I missing something, or is this a bug that should be resolved?
T3XA5Jack#51782
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Rezzahan#77802
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Damage kills a creature as a state based action, and those are not checked during the resolution of any spellt on the stack. The last part of any such resolution is to put the card representing the spell into the graevyard. THEN state based actions are checked. At that time, your card is in the graveyard and the 'goyf has 1 more toughness due to it, and lives as the damage is NOT lethal.