How to Play Magic: Episode 19 - Planeswalkers

Episode 19 - Planeswalkers
Planeswalkers are obnoxious.

They are not creatures. They are "Planeswalkers" which is the main card type. The subtype is it's name. They take the legendary rule where if one or more planeswalkers with the same name are out, they destroy each other. They are considered permanents. They come into play with X loyalty counters, where X is the number in the bottom right. Each time it is your turn, you can play each of the abilities once like a sorcery that turn. It gains loyalty counters by using abilities with a " + ", and loses them if the ability has a " - ". The amount they gain/lose is the number next to it.

How to Kill:
When you attack, you choose which of your attacking creatures will attack the opponent or the Planeswalker (if there is more than one Planeswalker, you can choose any number of them). Once that is decided, your opponent blocks like normal. If any creatures you attacked with have excess trample damage and it chose to attack the planeswalker, you can have it deal it's excess damage to the planeswalker. Any creatures that were not blocked deal their damage to the planeswalker (if they assigned their damage to it). When a Planeswalker takes damage, it loses that many loyalty counters. When it reaches 0 loyalty counters, it dies. Trample damage does not go from the Planeswalker to the player.
Another way to kill it is direct damage. You have to target the opponent, and after everything has resolved on the stack, the damage can be redirected to the planeswalker.

More questions or confused still? Here are the rules directly from WotC:
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/planeswalkers/week4

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[zachlr1]

So planeswalkers can be attacked by targeting the player and then redirecting the damage to the planeswalker. Next, the recipient declares blocking creatures. At this point, if the creatures can't block all of the damage (e.g. Trample), subsequent damage removes loyalty from the pwalker, correct? Say the pwalker dies, and there is 3 damage left over, does that then go to the player?

[HeirOfJezuz]

@zachlr1 no, you can attack a planeswalker by declaring that you are attacking it during your declare attackers phase. You redirect damage damage if it's from a spell like Lightning Bolt because they don't say "Target planeswalker". Damage does not go over to the play either if you kill the planeswalker and have left over damage

[piplup10203854]

so you can lighting bolt them right? cause it's deal 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker but I can choose whether I take the 3 or my planeswalker right?

[HeirOfJezuz]

@piplup10203854 You have it mixed up. Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to target CREATURE or PLAYER. If you cast Lightning Bolt on a player who has a planeswalker, you may then redirect the damage to the planeswalker. You have to do it this way because no card says "Target Planeswalker".

[woppaAUS]

Planeswalkers = worst thing to ever happen to MTG.



[FortnerEntertainment]

Can you block a planeswalker's attack with a creature?

[Likeaperv]

@CGCLevelDesign you can have 4 like any non-land card

[chilionesaus]

Thanks man, helped me alot

[CGCLevelDesign]

The only explanation on youtube that made sense. But I still can't find. Is there a limit to planeswalkers you can have in your deck? Or can you only have 4 just like creatures and spells.

[ElderGodBrandon]

@ElderGodBrandon nevermind i just saw you mention it im still half asleep lol been up all night building plainswalker decks and sstuff for a tournamnet a friend is holding, you just saved me

[ElderGodBrandon]

how do you kill a plainswalker? and lets say i have jace out, he has a plus 2 for one ability, does that mean i add 2 more \counters so he would have a total of 5 cuz his corner number is 3 and his powerful one says minus 10 so once i have 10 loyalty counters i use it and remove them all, does he die when he has zero?

[ravagex9]

thanks for the explaination. I am new to planeswalkers even tho i have been playing magic since revised.

[Gamer5449]

Good job. Me and my friends just say a planeswalker is just like another player.

[lurimo2010]

Great video! Helped a lot man!