Can you infect a planeswalker?

While the planeswalker is a creature, it will have 3 relevant characteristics: power, toughness, and loyalty. When that creature planeswalker takes infect damage, it will lose that many loyalty counters and it will gain that many -1/-1 counters.

How to do damage to a planeswalker?

Can a planeswalker be attacked if it becomes a creature?

Yes. Planeswalkers can be attacked by creatures. There is no exception in the rules for a planeswalker that is also a creature.

Can a player take damage for a planeswalker?

The rule states that you cannot directly target a Planeswalker with damage dealing spells—instead, you must target a player and then redirect the damage from that player to a Planeswalker they control.

What are the restrictions of a planeswalker?

There's no limit to the number of planeswalker permanents you can have in play! It may hurt your head trying to manage 100 passive and loyalty abilities, but that's completely fair game. The only restriction is that you can't have two copies of the exact same planeswalker card in play.

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Can attacks at planeswalkers be blocked?

Thanks for the A2A. No, Planeswalkers, can only be attacked, like you. An attacking player can choose creatures to attack both you and your planeswalkers. You use creatures to block damage, preventing it from being dealt to your planeswalkers.

Is attacking a planeswalker combat damage?

510.1b An unblocked creature assigns its combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. If it isn't currently attacking anything (if, for example, it was attacking a planeswalker that has left the battlefield), it assigns no combat damage.

Can a planeswalker lose loyalty if indestructible?

Planeswalkers with indestructible will still have loyalty counters removed from them as they are dealt damage. If a planeswalker with indestructible has no loyalty counters, it will still be put into its owner's graveyard, as the rule that does this doesn't destroy the planeswalker.

Does hitting a planeswalker count as hitting a player?

Combat damage that is dealt to a planeswalker will not trigger any of the Swords that look for damage to a player. Similarly, noncombat damage that is redirected to a planeswalker is not damaging a player and won't cause Bloodthirst to “turn on.”

Can you trample over planeswalkers?

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to a player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Trample over planeswalkers (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the controller of the planeswalker it's attacking.)

Does Safe Passage protect planeswalkers?

Safe Passage will prevent damage dealt to creatures that weren't on the battlefield at the time it resolved. Safe Passage doesn't prevent damage that would be dealt to planeswalkers you control.

Can planeswalkers be detained?

Yes, you can detain a planeswalker, it it is detain target permanent, but if Vraska the Unseen has already been activated, detainng her won't remove the effect.

Can a planeswalker have 0 loyalty?

If a planeswalker's loyalty is 0, it's put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based effect.

Can you have two planeswalkers?

Yes, but planeswalkers have their own version of the Legend rule. You cannot have multiple copies of the same planeswalker, even if they are different cards. So, you can't have two cards that have the type "Jace" for instance, but you can have as many different planeswalkers in play as you can cast.

Does Deathtouch work on planeswalkers?

Deathtouch is a static ability that causes 1 point of damage of the source with deathtouch to kill any creature it deals damage to (unless that creature is indestructible). This does not apply to Planeswalkers, because they are not creatures.

What is the legendary rule in planeswalker?

All planeswalkers past, present, and future gained the supertype legendary and became subject to the "legend rule". Thus, if a player controls more than one legendary planeswalker with the same name, that player chooses one and puts the other into their owner's graveyard.

Can a planeswalker lose their spark?

The spark is also what allows planeswalkers to use mana from multiple planes; should a spark be lost, inactive or defective, they are only able to use mana from the plane they are on.

Can you fireball a planeswalker?

You can't target the planeswalker itself, since Fireball targets a creature or player and a planeswalker is neither.

Can you mutate onto a planeswalker?

If a planeswalker is turned into a creature it can be mutated on and it remains a creature, and it won't be removed if it runs out of loyalty counters.

Can you lightning strike a planeswalker?

You certainly can use Lightning Bolt on a Planeswalker. Technically, what you're doing is targeting the player with the spell and redirecting the damage to the Planeswalker.

Can a planeswalker block another planeswalker?

Planeswalkers are not creatures, so they cannot directly attack or block. Creatures can attack an opponent's planeswalkers rather than the opponent themselves. Those creatures may be blocked normally, but if not blocked deal damage to the planeswalker instead of the player.

What are the best ways to protect planeswalkers?

The planeswalkers that protect themselves do so either by killing creatures or making tokens. Making tokens is generally better, since the sheer number of opponents and creatures usually means you won't be able to kill all of them and still have enough loyalty to survive an attack.

Does destroy all creatures affect planeswalkers?

Planeswalkers are NOT creatures, therefore, anything that targets a creature cannot target a Planeswalker.

Can lava spike hit a planeswalker?

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Flavor Text: It's not the most subtle incantation, but it gets the point across.

Does tapping a planeswalker do anything?

Planeswalkers don't have any inherent ability to become tapped. Assuming you mean tapping them with something like Dream's Grip, it doesn't cause any inherent effects from the Planeswalker itself - in particular, since they don't tap to use their abilities, it doesn't affect the loyalty abilities.