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Ram Through

Card Name

Ram Through

Mana Cost

1

Type

Instant

Rarity

Common

rules Text

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Flavor Text

The castle's mages had devised effective counters to every form of siegecraft, but had no answers to gorilla warfare.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Standard

Rulings

(4/17/2020)
If either creature is an illegal target as Ram Through tries to resolve, the creature you control won't deal damage to any creature or player.
(4/17/2020)
Excess damage caused by a spell or ability is similar to how combat damage from a creature with trample is handled. Start with the amount of damage being dealt to the creature and determine what is "lethal." This is the creature's toughness minus the amount of damage that it already has marked on it, but ignoring any replacement or prevention effects that will modify this damage. Also ignore whether the creature has an ability such as indestructible that will result in it not being destroyed by this damage.
(4/17/2020)
If the target creature you control has deathtouch, 1 damage from it is lethal.
(4/17/2020)
Once you've determined how much damage is excess, the creature you control simultaneously deals damage to the creature and to its controller. This damage may be modified by replacement or prevention effects.