We had a situation in that occurred and I wanted to make sure it was played correctly.
Player A declares creature as attacking
Player B declares blocking creatures
Player A casts Drownyard Behemoth and selects his 'Attacking' creature (getting the emerge cost lowered substantially), with the hopes of removing it from combat and leaving the blocking creature(s) unable to block other creatures.
Do note, that all blockers are declared at the same time. You cannot interrupt the blocker declaration because you don't have priority while your opponent goes through this turn based action. Same goes for him as well. So removing a blocked attacker to make the blocking creatures unable to block something else is pointless, since they can't be declared as blockers for something else anyway. The declare blockers action is long over by the time you play the Behemoth. Or it has not even begun, in which case all creatures of the defending player can still be assigned to block how he wants.
We had a situation in that occurred and I wanted to make sure it was played correctly.
Player A declares creature as attacking
Player B declares blocking creatures
Player A casts Drownyard Behemoth and selects his 'Attacking' creature (getting the emerge cost lowered substantially), with the hopes of removing it from combat and leaving the blocking creature(s) unable to block other creatures.
Is that a legal move?
The now-blocking-no-one creature(s) cannot be made to block another. (rule 509.1g)
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