Category Archives: Planeswalkers

Divine Deflection prevents and deals a TOTAL of X damage.

Posted on April 28, 2012 by bimmerbot

With the new card Divine Deflection, the wording can be a little misleading. While one might read it to mean that it prevents X damage to you AND X damage for each creature or planeswalker you control, then deals all … Continue reading →

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How Liliana of the Veil’s first ability works.

Posted on October 17, 2011 by krizriktr

There are many effects in Magic that cause multiple players to perform actions at the same time. Liliana of the Veil‘s first planeswalker ability is an example of this. When this ability resolves, each player in the game will discard … Continue reading →

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Gideon vs. Combust, which wins?

Posted on April 9, 2011 by krizriktr

Gideon Jura‘s third ability that costs zero loyalty counters makes Gideon into a 6/6 creature. (It will matter later, but this creature will be white, because Gideon is a white permanent.) When this happens Gideon also has an ability that … Continue reading →

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How Inkmoth Nexus and Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas interact.

Posted on February 19, 2011 by krizriktr

One area of player confusion is how multiple abilities that ‘animate’ a permanent interact. A very common interaction that has come up a lot lately deals with Inkmoth Nexus‘ animation ability and the planeswalker Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas second activated … Continue reading →

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Planeswalker names and subtypes.

Posted on January 26, 2011 by krizriktr

When one or more planeswalkers with the same subtype is in play, both will go to the graveyard when state-based actions are applied. How this works is different than the ‘legend rule’ as the name of the planesawlker does not … Continue reading →

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What can deal damage to planeswalkers.

Posted on January 12, 2011 by krizriktr

Planeswakers go to the graveyard when the no longer have any loyalty counters on them. The number of counters on them will vary depending on how many them came into play with and which of their abilities are played. Counters … Continue reading →

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