Defender needs to see order of damage from attacking creature
During combat, after blockers are declared and before first strike damage, attacker selects the order and amount of damage to apply to multiple blocking creatures. The defender cannot see what order was selected. This is needed because if I block an attacking creature that has first strike with multiple creatures and want to use an instant to give the first creature (or a particular creature) indestructible so that it survives to give it's damage, I need to see which of my blocking creatures is going to receive what damage in what order.
Bartano#06097
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Rezzahan#77802
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The conga line of death has been removed from the game. Damage can again be assigned to all creatures the attacker/blocker is facing as its controller chooses, just as it was years ago. You do not have to go through the first creature to reach the second anymore. This also means, that you do not get to know, how your opponent wants to assign the damage until it actually happens and it is too late to do anything about it.