Deathtouch is not something that you assign independent of damage, it requires damage being assigned to the opposing creature to work. In combat, deathtouch makes it so 1 damage is lethal to a creature regardless of its toughness, but you do have to assign at least 1 point of damage for it work. Since your creature is 1/1, you can still only assign damage to one creature. That creature will die even if it has 2 toughness or more, but the other one will survive since you weren't able to assign combat damage to it. Now, if your creature had more than 1 power, Deathtouch would allow you to assign only 1 damage to the first attacker regardless of their toughness, as opposed to the norm of having to assign equal or superior to toughness before assigning to the next creature.
Thank you that makes sense.
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Deathtouch won't change much in your scenario as deathtouch isn't a thing you assign. A creature with zero power still won't kill anything in combat even if it has deathtouch. It's best to think of deathtouch as a modifier on a damage source: normally, lethal damage means "equal to the creature's toughness" but deathtouch changes that to "any amount of damage" so one point. This means that when you make the assignment order you would only have to deal one point of damage before moving on to the next creature. So with one power that's one point to one creature (which now has lethal damage) and the next creature down the line takes zero and survives. If you had two or more power it would be one damage to the first creature and then you'd have power remaining to deal damage to the next creature.
So let's say my creature has death touch. Will the ability destroy both creatures on my opponents side? Could I assign one damage to one creature and death touch to another? How would this pan out?
Assume my opponent has two 2/2 creatures and are attacking and I have one 1/1 creature defending. Would I be able to block both creatures regardless of my creatures toughness? Also will I be dealing 1 damage to each of my opponents creatures or just one creature?
Thank you very much for the info.
Assume my opponent has two 2/2 creatures and are attacking and I have one 1/1 creature defending. Would I be able to block both creatures regardless of my creatures toughness? Also will I be dealing 1 damage to each of my opponents creatures or just one creature?