Does First Strike prevent Lifelink?

First strike allows creatures to destroy any attacker or blocker with toughness less than or equal to their power without taking any damage. That means they can survive combat with creatures with deathtouch, and they can destroy creatures with lifelink before they deal damage, preventing opponents from gaining life.

Does blocking first strike trigger?

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.

Can you play instants between first strike and normal damage?

Players get priority in each step of the Combat phase, after Turn based Actions are performed. This means that you can cast stuff between first strike combat damage and “normal” combat damage.

Does first strike double damage?

No, First Strike does not cause your creature to deal damage twice; it only causes your creature to deal damage before normal damage is dealt.

Do you get Lifelink when blocking?

Yes. Any damage dealt by a creature with lifelink causes its controller to gain that much life, including combat damage dealt by such a creature while blocking.

Is first strike combat damage?

First Strike is a static ability that creates an additional combat damage step at the start of combat damage. A creature that has first strike will deal its damage before a creature without first strike.

Does double strike deal damage twice?

Double strike is an evergreen keyword ability that allows a creature to deal combat damage twice per combat phase — once during the first combat damage step, along with any creatures that have first strike, and again during the second combat damage step along with creatures that have neither keyword.

Do you lose first strike before gaining life from Lifelink?

Yes, first strike happens first, and you lose as soon as you get lethal damage before your creature with lifelink was able to deal damage and you gain life due to it. Thanks for contributing an answer to Board & Card Games Stack Exchange!

Do you gain 5 life in first strike?

The creature is killed by the damage in the first strike phase and I gain 5 life. Do I gain an additional 5 life in the normal damage phase? As Ikegami mentioned in a comment, the answer is no. Double strike (as well as first strike) adds an additional combat damage step where creatures with double (or first) strike deal their damage.

When does Lifelink become a triggered ability in magic?

However, the Magic 2010 rules update changed that. Now, instead of being a triggered ability, lifelink changes how the damage is dealt. So now you gain the life as the damage is being dealt, not later on. Going back to the example above, you would survive that combat.

Do you gain life if you block a creature with Lifelink?

Yes, you have. When a creature with lifelink does damage, you gain life equal to that creature’s power, since that is how much damage it deals (outside of a few corner cases). In the case of a 3/3 lifelink creature being blocked by a 2/2 creature, the 3/3 creature still does 3 damage to the blocking creature,…