Mtg can you block then tap

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Can I tap a card after I assign it to block? Asked 7 years, 5 months ago. Active 3 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 21k times. However, note that your opponent not you gets to determine the way their attacker's damage is divided between your forces.

For instance, if you blocked one attacking Paladin with two Druids, your opponent will probably assign all three of Paladin's damage to a single Druid enough to kill it. However, if your creatures had an effect like banding , you would instead be able to control your foe's damage, perhaps assigning two damage to one Druid and one to the other, letting both your units endure the encounter.

Many creature traits affect battle; we'll cover some of the most pertinent to blocking. Creatures with flying may block both aerial and land-based troops, but creatures without flying can't block flyers unless they have reach. Thus, flying is a great way to attack over your foe's potential guardians, as they'll be unable to defend unless they possess either flying or reach. Use this to safely bypass ground armies, especially in the green faction, which controls many powerful creatures but few who can protect against aerial assaults.

Gishath, Sun's Avatar has trample, vigilance, and haste. Trample When a creature with trample swings at you or a planeswalker you control, even if you block them, any excess combat damage they deal damage past your blockers' total toughness still gets through, so be wary of these bulldozing forces. However, trample doesn't have any relevance when blocking; even if your trample-bearing defender blocks and kills an attacking unit with power to spare, the leftover damage won't strike your foe.

Basically, trample only assists attackers. Vigilance Vigilance is a simple trait that prevents an attacking unit from tapping, keeping them ready to later tap or be used as a blocker. However, they still have to be untapped at the declare attackers step for this work; if you've previously exhausted them to use their effects, even vigilance won't let them attack that turn.

Partial payments are not allowed. Each one is blocking the attacking creatures chosen for it. See rule This remains unchanged until the creature is removed from combat, an effect says that it becomes blocked or unblocked, or the combat phase ends, whichever comes first.

A creature remains blocked even if all the creatures blocking it are removed from combat. The relative order among the remaining blocking creatures is unchanged. The relative order among the remaining attacking creatures is unchanged. It triggers if the creature is declared as a blocker. No one has priority to do anything while attackers are being declared during the declare attackers phase. You can tap creatures once the attack phase is entered, but before attackers are declared, however.

Also of note: Masako the Humorless. You cannot attack or block with a creature that is tapped. What would happen? The activated ability would go on the stack, like normal. Does a blocking creature become tapped? Do tapped blocking creatures deal damage?