I know the attacker chooses how damaged is assigned via the order. But if you are attacking with a 5/5, and your opponent blocks with 5 0/2s, can I assign 1 damage to each (maybe I don’t want them dying?)
Or do I have to inevitably deal 2 damage to the first 2 and then 1 to the third
Unless that 5/5 has deathtouch, yes, you are stuck with killing at the very least the first of those blockers. You are not required to assign damage to the next in line, but can instead opt to assign more to the blocker in front. so you can assign all 5 damage to the first blocker, or 4 to the first and 1 to the second, or 2 to the first and second each and 1 to either the first second or third.
With deathtouch, any nonzero amount of damage is lethal, so you can kill up to five of the blockers by assignung 1 damage each. Which you can do because 1 damage is lethal so you can go to the next in line already.
That’s helpful. So if I wanted, I could choose to assign between 2-5 damage to the first 0/2, but can never do less than lethal until I run out of power damage?
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Or do I have to inevitably deal 2 damage to the first 2 and then 1 to the third
With deathtouch, any nonzero amount of damage is lethal, so you can kill up to five of the blockers by assignung 1 damage each. Which you can do because 1 damage is lethal so you can go to the next in line already.
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