# Don't understand the creature attacking

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**Category:** MtGPQ General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 12, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/dont-understand-the-creature-attacking/20661 "2015-12-12T09:38:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/dont-understand-the-creature-attacking/20661/1 "2015-12-12T09:38:02Z")

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Why do my creatures sometimes attack the opponent’s creatures or attack the opponent head on. (This happens while there are enemy creatures being played).

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**Author:** ![madsalad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/madsalad/32/5553_2.png) [@madsalad](https://forums.505go.com/u/madsalad)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/dont-understand-the-creature-attacking/20661/2 "2015-12-12T09:51:49Z")

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I’m not sure if I’m answering your question but who attacks who sometimes comes down to abilities they have.

Default: Creatures always attack the Planeswalker unless another card, ability, support, game condition says otherwise.

Defender: A creature with defender will always block incoming attacks, defending the Planeswalker.

Berserker: A creature with Berserker will always attack the defending Planeswalker’s creature in their #1 slot (bottom slot on screen).

Flying: A creature with flying is considered to be above the battlefield and can fly over grounded creatures to attack the Planeswalker. So, if there is a grounded creature with defender and the attacker is flying, the attacjerfliesover the defender to attack the Planeswalker.

Reach: Reach allows a grounded character to block a flyer. In this game I believe a creature would need both Reach and Defender in order to block a flyer. Or, if a flying creature had Berserk, and a defending creature had either Reach or Flying, it is possible the flying berserker would attack either on if those characters, depending on which on is closest to the #1 slot. I could be wrong on this one though.

I hope some of that helped.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/dont-understand-the-creature-attacking/20661/3 "2015-12-12T10:10:51Z")

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Thanks madsalad. That helped a lot.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/dont-understand-the-creature-attacking/20661/4 "2015-12-12T20:40:09Z")

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> [@madsalad](#):
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> In this game I believe a creature would need both Reach and Defender in order to block a flyer.

In MtGPQ reach creatures also have defender.