How does deathtouch and lifelink work together

Put a counter of that kind on Crystalline Giant. Grimdancer enters the battlefield with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

When Kathril, Aspect Warper enters the battlefield, put a flying counter on any creature you control if a creature card in your graveyard has flying. Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Majestic Myriarch's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of creatures you control. At the beginning of each combat, Majestic Myriarch gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying.

The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Mutate If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own.

They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. Whenever this creature mutates, return any number of target creature cards with total power 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards. Cards in graveyards have only the characteristics of their front face. When Odric, Blood-Cursed enters the battlefield, create X Blood tokens, where X is the number of abilities from among flying, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance found among creatures you control.

Count each ability only once. Venomous Hierophant damages it when attacking, which automatically destroys Spined Megalodon without targeting it. Your email is only used for updates and email-based ad targetting. Ads keep this site free! Even though my creature destroys Fierce Witchstalker in combat due to deathtouch, it is also destroyed.

On the other hand, giving the same creature deathtouch and trample has serious potential. Although it still has to deal lethal damage to each of its blockers, 1 damage counts as lethal if your creature has deathtouch. This means the excess damage to the defending player will be far larger than it otherwise would be. This gives it trample until the end of the turn.

However, as Insatiable Hemophage has deathtouch, I need only assign 1 damage to each of its blockers regardless of their toughness. The remainder I assign to the defending player.

All three creatures die as a result and I do 1 damage to my opponent. Pretty good, right? This is because first strike allows a creature to deal its combat damage before all other creatures and be safe from deathtouch. I choose to block with Insatiable Hemophage. However, due to first strike, Radha deals 3 damage to Insatiable Hemophage before it has a chance to deal its own damage.

Deathtouch plus first strike on the same creature is a powerful combination. Together, these two keywords allow a creature to instantly destroy any creature it fights before it has a chance to deal damage. Due to deathtouch, Colossal Dreadmaw is destroyed before it has a chance to fight back. This is because deathtouch only destroys other creatures, not planeswalkers. As a result, the planeswalker will take damage normally. This can still kill it if its loyalty is too low though.

However, because Ugin is a planeswalker and not a creature, Ankle Shanker only deals it 2 damage despite having deathtouch. Few creatures can end the game in a single turn. Master of Cruelties is one of those creatures. No matter what their life was at beforehand, Master of Cruelties puts any opponent at 1 life.

As such, if this card hits, you have an easy win. For only two mana, Ice-Fang Coatl is a fantastic deal. You can cast it at instant speed and it draws you a card. With flying, Ice-Fang Coatl can block nearly anything too. And with at least three other snow permanents, it has deathtouch. With Bow of Nylea, you can give all your attacking creatures deathtouch.

Yes to both. Deathtouch Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.

Deathtouch Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Lifelink Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life. Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Note that there is a big difference between poisonous and infect, though — a poisonous creature deals combat damage normally, then applies a fixed number of poison counters, while a creature with infect does not cause the player to lose life and likes pump effects much more.

Thus, the different keyword. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths introduced deathtouch counters. When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land. MTG Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?