I was playing a game on Arena and came into a situation where something happened that I was not expecting. I want to see if this is an Arena mistake, or if I'm mistaken how the rules work for first strike. I had a Danitha Capashen, Paragon that was enchanted with an Oakenform. This made it a 5/5 with first strike. It was blocked by a Vampire Sovereign and a Gravedigger that was being buffed by a Death Baron. It was my understanding that if I assigned damage to the Vampire Sovereign first, I would: kill the Vampire Sovereign with first strike damage before it even gets the chance to damage Danitha, deal 1 first strike damage to the Gravedigger, and then the Gravedigger would deal 3 regular damage to my Danitha. The end result; however, was that both my Danitha and their Sovereign died. Do I just not understand exactly how first strike damage works, or was this a problem with Arena?
Death Baron buff Skeletons and Zombies the Sovereing is a Vampire but the Gravedigger is a zombie, what you did was kill the Sovereing with First strike but didnt have enought damage left to kill the Gravedigger, so it dealt damage to your Danitha and ended up killing her because of the Death toutch from the Baron
I was playing a game on Arena and came into a situation where something happened that I was not expecting. I want to see if this is an Arena mistake, or if I'm mistaken how the rules work for first strike. I had a Danitha Capashen, Paragon that was enchanted with an Oakenform. This made it a 5/5 with first strike. It was blocked by a Vampire Sovereign and a Gravedigger that was being buffed by a Death Baron. It was my understanding that if I assigned damage to the Vampire Sovereign first, I would: kill the Vampire Sovereign with first strike damage before it even gets the chance to damage Danitha, deal 1 first strike damage to the Gravedigger, and then the Gravedigger would deal 3 regular damage to my Danitha. The end result; however, was that both my Danitha and their Sovereign died. Do I just not understand exactly how first strike damage works, or was this a problem with Arena?
Death Baron gives Deathtouch to the Gravedigger, in addition to the +1/+1. So even one damage from Gravedigger is enough to kill Danitha.
You should have put Gravedigger to receive damage first, that way Danitha could have survived that combat.
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Death Baron gives Deathtouch to the Gravedigger, in addition to the +1/+1. So even one damage from Gravedigger is enough to kill Danitha.
You should have put Gravedigger to receive damage first, that way Danitha could have survived that combat.