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So I know Double Strike works by dealing first strike damage then regular damage, but yesterday during a game we came across an issue.

5/5 monster attacks me, it has Bladed Pinions attached and has some instant that gives it double strike.

I block with 3 Ezuri's Archers.

So the idea was batted around that First strike damage was done to all three of my creatures, killed the lot and the 5/5 survives...I figured that couldn't possibly be right and we ruled it that way. Was that right?

We eventually ruled it that the first strike damage killed one of them, then regular damage was assigned 2/2/1 so 2 archers died, 1 survived and the 5/5 was dead. Was this right?

THEN the idea was batted around, suggesting that first strike could somehow be stacked. So for example if you had a card with first strike and attached Bladed Pinions it would somehow cause all the damage to be first strike...Double strike might have been suggested at one point also. Either way that sounded unrealistic to me. Is that, as I suspect, wrong?

Thanks for any responses.