I am under the impression that the damage resolution phase is
the
last phase of combat. AND at the end of this phase each creature
is
checked to see if is has taken lethal damage, if it has it is allowed
to
regenerate, if it does not it is removed. Now I don't happen
to have a
rulebook with me, but this is how I understand it....
( I will include the damage prevention phase as a reference )
lets say you have 2 Kors, and a maniac, and furnace, and you shock
an en-Kor. So this 2 pts is doubled to 4 pts at the beginning
of the
damage prevention phase. This en-Kor has 4 pts of damage he then
redirects one point to the other en-Kor. This will begin a new
damage
resolution phase. Now since these are batches of instants what
could (as
I see it) happen is this.... The first en-Kor takes a tottal
of 4 pts.
He redirects these one point at a time to the other en-Kor. This
will
basically double again to 8 pts to the other en-Kor. (This is
all as a
batch of instants and _all_ are treated with thier own damage prevention
phase) So the second en-Kor redirects all 8 pts to the maniac
(turns into
16). There is no more damage being resolved on the en-Kors, so
we process
the damage resolution for the mogg. (I will assume that the 8
pts is not
yet doubled to 16..) So we will deal with the first point done
to the
mogg. This point of damage is done, it is doubled in the first
section of
the damage resolution, to 2 pts. The second step is to play batches
to
prevent (mogg has none). Next step is to end damage prevention,
this is
where redirection is played (again mogg has none). Next is damage
being
successfully dealt, play abilities that work now (binding agony i think
-stuff like that) Next remove dead creatures a.play regen b. destroy
dead
creatures c.player loses one life for each damage done. SO now this
mogg
has taken 2 pts of damage, which kills it, and this will then proceed
on
to the next phase. Play abilities that trigger on creature death.
Now
this mogg ability is used. The rest of the damage from the en-Kors
is
gone since it was played as a batch of instants and the target is gone.
This is how I see the damage prevention phase. I have included
some relevant rulings on this. There is one ruling that I did
not include
which said that is a source damages a creature multiple times in a
phase
it is treated as one large batch. There is then another rule
that says
that redirection is not considered successfully dealt during thsi damage
prevention. These two rulings are kind of obscure, but
after reading the
rule I have included it would seem that this would supersceed the others.
I think that the KEY to this is the wording in the redirection.
PLAY THESE AS A SERIES. This is the important one I think.
Tell this to the rules guru. And you can say this to him for me
'put that
in your pipe and smoke it' -My gradma used to say that. heh heh
Mike
T.10.1 - The Damage Prevention Step can be charted out like this:
[Fifth
Edition, Page 50]
1. Beginning of Damage Prevention - Play all abilities which either
trigger on damage being "assigned", or which automatically
prevent damage. Play these as a Series (see Rule T.9).
2. Main Part of Damage Prevention - Play any number of
Batches (see Rule T.8) of spells and abilities which either
prevent or
redirect damage.
3. End of Damage Prevention - Play all abilities which automatically
redirect damage or which say they are played at the end of
damage prevention. Play these as a Series (see Rule T.9).
4. Damage is Successfully Dealt - Play all abilities which
trigger on damage being "dealt". Play these as a Series (see
Rule T.9).
5. Remove Dead Creatures a. Play any Regeneration (see Rule G.32)
spells and abilities on creatures with lethal damage.
Play these in a
Series (see Rule T.9). b. Destroy any creature with lethal
damage (see
Rule K.12.4). c.Damaged players lose 1 life for each point of
damage done to them.
6. Play all abilities which trigger on creatures being destroyed. Play
these as a Series (see Rule T.9).
T.10.11 - Damage created during step 3, 4, 5 or 6 is collected and handled
in a new Damage Prevention step which
immediately follows step 6. [bethmo 03/31/98]