How do attacking and blocking work?

Question

Does the attacker choose targets for each of his attacking units?

Does the attacker just attack in general and the defender chooses units to block with?

Or something else?

Comments

Well ask yourself this. Will the attacker be choosing the player's units as attack targets, or the player's life points. The difference between Yu-Gi-Oh and MTG. With YGO the attacker chooses the players units, and has to get rid of them before attacking the player's life points directly. With MTG the player attacks the other player's life points directly, and the defender chooses who they want to block with or to let the attack go through. We also need to decide how life points will work, as well as an overall ATT/DEF (wether it be 2/2 and a player's life points be lower, or 1200/1200 and a player's life points be higher.)

Answer 1

Something else.

The attacker chooses targets. The defender may use a unit to block, but that unit loses its ability to attack on the defender's next turn.

Attackers could have units with the special ability to attack without being blocked.

Defenders could have units with the special ability to block without losing their ability to attack on the next turn.

Comments

This sounds quite innovative, which I really like.

Answer 2

The attacker chooses targets.

The defender may have units with special abilites that can choose to block specific attacking units.

Comments

This sounds like the closest to what Hearthstone does, and is among the easiest to implement at the start I think.

Answer 3

The defender chooses units to block with.

The attacker may have special units that can select a target, ignoring blocking units.