And this is the situation the BS ruling on the meaning of "dealt" has put us in. Now we need rulings for the present tense, conditional present tense, and past tense meanings of verbs (particularly "deal") in game terms instead of simply following the rules of English and accepting that the word means the same thing with regard to action regardless of time reference:
Baron Blade deals 2 damage to Scholar.
Scholar would be dealt 2 damage by Baron Blade.
Scholar was dealt 2 damage by Baron Blade, but Flesh to Iron reduced it to 0.
In all cases above, the action (deal) and object (2 damage) are the same, regardless of other effects, leaving no contradictions.
Now we need resolution phases with accompanying state checks a la Magic the Gathering's stack mechanism:
Baron Blade deals 2 damage to Scholar.
Scholar would be dealt 2 damage by Baron Blade. "Would be dealt damage" effects are triggered.
Flesh to Iron reduces the damage by 2.
Scholar was dealt 0 damage by Baron Blade. "Is/was dealt damage" effects are not triggered.
Now, as referenced above by Foote, we need to find places in this stack for "check immunity" and plug the various redirection effects into the flowchart as appropriate. It also creates a contradiction in states (Baron Blade deals 2 damage but no damage was dealt) that flies in the face of the basic linguistic constructs of cause and effect (I built a house, but a tornado knocked it down, so no house was built).
Yes, I've belabored this point already in another thread, but it drives me nuts and IMO severely damages the elegance and simplicity of the game and its rules. I was happy to have a cool game that I could explain to someone in the time it takes to shuffle a deck. Now I have to go over how the meaning of common English words changes with tense with regard to game events in ways that are counter-intuitive and anti-fun.
I realize I can just house-rule this stuff away and quit fussing over it, and I'd like to, but I also want to play the game the "official" way. If I don't, my contributions to the statistics project skew the data and I don't want that to happen. So I'll just complain a bit, and if everyone ignores me, no complaints were made.