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What beats Deathtouch?

What Stops or Beats Deathtouch? Deathtouch is restricted to combat, which means that removing creatures using spot or mass removal gets the job done. First or double strike is also a powerful way to deal with deathtouch attackers or blockers. Indestructible is another fantastic counter because they won't die anyway.
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How do you counter Deathtouch in First Strike?

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.
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Does Hexproof beat Deathtouch?

No it doesn't. Deathtouch on a creature just means that if that creature deals damage to another creature, be it combat or non-combat, that the creature dealt damage will be destroyed. The deathtouch ability doesn't target anything so hexproof will not save a creature dealt damage with deathtouch.
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Does Ward protect against Deathtouch?

Does Ward Stop Deathtouch? No. Ward only taxes/counters targeted spells or abilities, but deathtouch doesn't target anything. It's a static ability of the creature with deathtouch, so it doesn't do anything.
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Does first strike defeat Deathtouch?

Your deathtouch tokens would die, because the first strike tokens would deal damage to them during the first strike combat step that happens before regular combat. Since your tokens die before the regular combat happens, they don't get any damage in and without damage your deathtouch ability has nothing to kill.
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What wins indestructible vs Deathtouch?

Indestructible creatures also ignore deathtouch. Normally, a creature is destroyed if it takes damage from a creature with deathtouch. But since indestructible creatures can't be destroyed, they're immune.
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Does protection override Deathtouch?

The short answer here is yes. Protection from black, for example, will prevent all damage dealt by black creatures and spells to whatever has that protection. Deathtouch means that any amount of damage counts as lethal damage. But if that damage is prevented, then it won't do anything to the creature being protected.
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Does prevent all damage stop Deathtouch?

As we discussed a few weeks ago, protection does several things, such as preventing all damage from any source it has protection from. That means that deathtouch will not apply, as damage that is prevented is not considered dealt.
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Does infect cancel deathtouch?

Infect has deathtouch as well there will n. Terry Ables Jr. Normally, damage dealt causes life loss. life loss, to the gaining of poison counters.
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What magic cards deal 1 damage to all creatures?

Rain of Embers deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. +1: Draw a card.
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Can Hexproof survive board wipes?

Granting hexproof to a permanent or player doesn't cause opponents' Auras to become unattached. A card that has 'hexproof' is still affected by board wipes that don't target specifically that card.
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What creature is Hexproof and indestructible?

Hexproof means the creature can't be targeted by a spell or ability controlled by an opponent. Indestructible means that the permanent with it can't be destroyed by effects that say destroy or when lethal damage is marked on it.
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Does Hexproof stop indestructible?

No, hexproof will not stop deathtouch.

Only indestructible can stop a deathtouch creature from killing another with combat damage.
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Does shroud protect from Deathtouch?

Because deathtouch does not target, shroud won't save a creature from deathtouch. Instead, the shroud creature will just be dealt damage normally and be destroyed as a result. Remember, dealing combat damage isn't an ability.
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Does Deathtouch deal poison counters?

Deathtouch Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
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Does first strike beat indestructible?

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. However, first strike doesn't get around indestructible; these sturdy creatures can survive any type of damage!
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Does trample work with Deathtouch?

If an attacking creature with deathtouch and trample becomes blocked, the attacking creature first assigns damage to the creature(s) blocking it.
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Does Deathtouch work if creatures fight?

The damage is dealt simultaneously, and it is dealt by the creatures themselves, so abilities like deathtouch, lifelink, and infect will work as normal. Damage dealt while fighting is not combat damage, so abilities like first strike or Double strike won't have any effect.
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Does Deathtouch work with 0 damage?

No. Deathtouch still requires that damage be dealt: 702.2b Any nonzero amount of combat damage assigned to a creature by a source with deathtouch is considered to be lethal damage, regardless of that creature's toughness.
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Can a planeswalker be killed by Deathtouch?

Accepted answer #1. Simply, it doesn't. A creature with deathtouch will destroy any CREATURE it deals damage to. Planeswalkers are not creatures, so they take damage like they normally do, i.e. a Deadly Recluse will still only remove 1 counter from a planeswalker if it damages it.
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Can I block a creature with protection?

So, how does protection affect creatures? Here's what the reminder text says: A creature with protection from a color “can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything” of that color.
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Can you exile indestructible?

An indestructible permanent can be exiled, returned to a player's hand, put into a graveyard for having 0 or less toughness (via anything that gives -X/-X for example), or sacrificed.
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Can you destroy a creature with indestructible?

Indestructible is an evergreen keyword in Magic: The Gathering. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage and effects which say 'destroy'.
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Do board wipes affect indestructible?

Although board wipes are very powerful, there are some ways to counter them. The key thing here is the keywords. Most board wipes “destroy” creatures, so one way to protect your creatures (and permanents) is to buff them with the “indestructible” keyword.
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Can you target an indestructible permanent with a destroy spell?

Indestructible objects can be targeted by spells and abilities that would destroy. Permanents that have the indestructible ability cannot be destroyed by effects that would destroy them or, if the permanent is a creature, by receiving lethal damage.
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