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Historical Rules · 11 November 2016

Rule 510.1b

Official source text from the 11 November 2016 Rules release

An unblocked creature assigns its combat damage to the player or planeswalker it’s attacking. If it isn’t currently attacking anything (if, for example, it was attacking a planeswalker that has left the battlefield), it assigns no combat damage.

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