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You will get trampled for one point of (poison) damage, but your Fog Bank will emerge without harm. Trample rules state that you must assign lethal damage, defined as damage equal to the toughness of the blocker minus damage already marked on the creature (or one damage from a source with deathtouch).

The fact that the damage will be prevented by Fog Bank's ability does not change how the trample will work.

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You will get trampled for one point of (poison) damage, but your Fog Bank will emerge without harm. Trample rules state that you must assign lethal damage, defined as damage equal to the toughness of the blocker minus damage already marked on the creature (or one damage from a source with deathtouch).

The fact that the damage will be prevented by Fog Bank's ability does not change how the trample will work.

you can decide to mark more points of damage on a creature though if you have trample like if you were trying to play around mutagenic growth though right?

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you can decide to mark more points of damage on a creature though if you have trample like if you were trying to play around mutagenic growth though right?

Yes, you can assign more damage than lethal to the blocking creature(s) if so choose to but that doesn't really apply in the OP's scenario.

Also be aware that players do not receive priority between damage being assigned and damage being dealt so Mutagenic Growth is unlikely to be helpful in instances where lethal damage is...well lethal.

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you can decide to mark more points of damage on a creature though if you have trample like if you were trying to play around mutagenic growth though right?

Yes. You can mark as many points of damage as you want on a creature. Trample just gives you the option of dealing that damage directly to the defending player.

Unless something gives a creature the ability to block multiple creatures at a time (such as Wall of Glare) it can only block one at a time. So you normally can't do that. If your Fog Bank were enchanted with, say, Entangler, then it would stop everything it could block, assuming they don't have trample.

EDIT: And if one or more of them does have trample, things get a little more complicated. Your opponent can have each creature Fog Bank is blocking assign damage in whatever order he wants. If one creature has trample, and the others have at least 2 power between them, then the opponent can assign the non-trampling damage first, then, since the Bank has been assigned "lethal" damage, the trample can trample over for its full power. If all of the creatures being blocked have trample, the Bank will just stop 2 damage total.

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so does it mean that everytime you declare multiple creatures to attack, for example 3 you have to declare 3 blockers (if they dont have an ability to block multiple creatures as you said earlier)? You can't block 3 creatures with one even if it has enough toughness to survive all of them?

Correct.
One creature can normally only block one attacker. If a creature can block more than one attacker, it will so right on the card; compare, for example, Palace Guard.