Two noob questions

[DiTAR]

1 - If I have a

"Thougt Courier"
(: Draw a card, then discard a card.)

enchanted with an opponent's

"Betrayal"
(Enchant creature an opponent controls. ; Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, you draw a card.)

and tap the creature, who buys first?

2 - If a blocking creature is bounced to hand does the attacker still causes damage? And if the damage is already on stack?

Thanks in advance.

[parallax]

You tap the Thought Courier and place his ability on the stack. The opponent's Betrayal triggers and goes on the stack on top of Thought Courier's ability. Your opponent will draw first, then you will draw and discard a card.

If all creatures blocking an attacking creature are bounced, the attacking creature will not deal combat damage, as there are no blocking creatures to assign damage to. The only exception is an attacking creature with trample. An attacking creature with trample will assign all its damage to the opponent if all of its blockers are removed from combat before damage is assigned.

[Nibble]

Also note that if a trample creature's blocker is removed after damage is assigned, you don't get to reassign that damage.

Say you've got a 5-power trampler running into a 2-toughness blocker. If you move past declare blockers step and start assigning damage, you assign 2 to the creature and 3 to the player. Even if the blocker's bounced after that, the player will still only take 3 damage, not 5.

[DiTAR]

Thanks a lot guys.

I only played seriously before 6th edition rules.

I guess playing too much Shandalar doesn't help either

[parallax]

Thanks a lot guys.

I only played seriously before 6th edition rules.

I guess playing too much Shandalar doesn't help either

Yeah, be careful playing Shandalar if you're not familiar with how the rules have changed since then. I know there've been a couple times on Shandalar when I've said: "Oh yeah, it did used to work like that." If you're not careful, you can reinforce some incorrect rules.