How does Lifelink work with double strike?
Lifelink means that damage dealt by that creature also causes you to gain that much life. Double Strike means the creature deals combat damage both during the first strike damage phase and normal damage phase.
How does double strike and Deathtouch work?
Creatures with deathtouch deal damage during the regular combat damage step. Fortunately, if you block a creature with deathtouch with a creature with first strike or double strike, your creature will deal damage during the first strike damage step, before the deathtouch creature can return fire.
Does double strike include first strike?
Double strike isn’t first strike. Effects that make a creature lose first strike won’t make it lose double strike. Creatures with double strike and creatures with first strike deal combat damage in the first combat damage step.
Does lifelink work when blocking?
Blocking with a creature that has protection from the creature with lifelink. Blocking with a creature and sacrificing it before the combat damage step. (However, if the attacking creature has both lifelink and trample, you’ll still take the damage and your opponent will still gain the life.)
Does double strike count as two attacks?
No. The trigger, “Whenever ~ attacks” means “Whenever ~ is declared as an attacking creature”. A creature with double strike will deal damage in the two combat damage steps, but will only be declared as an attacker once per turn. (Normally, unless some other effect is creating additional combat phases.)
Does blocking double strike work?
Yes, double strike and first strike work while blocking. Effectively, there is a “first strike combat damage step” in which one set of double strike damage is dealt, and then a normal combat damage step, where all other combat damage is dealt.
What happens if both creatures have double strike?
A creature with double strike will deal combat damage twice. First, it will deal it before all other creatures, as if it had first strike. Then it will deal its damage again along with all other creatures.
Can you double double strike?
Double strike lets the creature deal damage in both steps. It still takes damage from any blockers able to deal damage on the same step — if two 2/4 doublestrikers where to fight one another they’ve be able to kill each other and would deal damage to each other in both steps.
Can Lifelink trigger twice?
The ability triggers twice. Here’s the relevant rule from the comprehensive rules, which also includes an example where it does matter whether it’s once or twice: 702.15e If multiple sources with lifelink deal damage at the same time, they cause separate life gain events (see rules 119.9–10).