This is probably one of those cases where most players were already doing it this way anyhow, because they weren't aware of the actual rule (which I'd have to say is not intuitive).
Genuinely curious how this applies to Trample then. Are we able to, say, give Torbran trample, kill a 3/3 blocker with a single damage, and reserve a point of damage to do three to the player?
Current complete rules prevent this
Once all those blocking creatures are assigned lethal damage, any excess damage is assigned
Wow I never would have expected this change, or that this was even something WotC was discussing. This feels like a massive change and really hurts defending players.
Their justification is essentially:
[Blocking order is] somewhat unintuitive, adds a fair bit of rules baggage, and losing it means more interesting decisions and less double-dipping if you know the tricks.
Not sure how it’s any more or less intuitive or how it adds any more rules baggage than the new rule creates, they just hand wave these things and gloss over the reasoning. Curious how it develops but off the cuff not really happy about this change.
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