‘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 prevents all damage to it. So in effect you gain a fairly large and tough attacking […]
Category: Planeswalkers
How Inkmoth Nexus and Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas interact.
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 ‘ animation ability and the planeswalker second activated ability. In order to get this ball rolling, you must first use Inkmoth Nexus’ ability to turn the Nexus into […]
Planeswalker names and subtypes.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This article has been updated as of the prerelease of Magic 2014 on July 13; Please refer to the revisions below. 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’ […]
What can deal damage to planeswalkers.
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 are also removed when a planeswalker is dealt damage. For each point of damage a […]