Does Lifelink work on planeswalkers?

You will gain life by attacking a planeswalker with a creature that has lifelink. More generally, any damage source with lifelink will cause you to gain life if it deals damage to anything.

Can you Lifelink planeswalkers?

Damage is still dealt when attacking a planeswalker, it's just turned into the removal of loyalty counters. Lifelink still applies and you'll gains life equal to the amount of damage dealt for damaging a planeswalker.

Does Lifelink work with abilities?

If a creature has lifelink, any amount of damage it deals allows its controller to gain that much life. And that's any damage: combat and non-combat damage alike. So, if your creature with lifelink “fights” another creature outside of combat or deals damage via an activated ability, you'll still gain the life!

Does Lifelink work against creatures?

Lifelink persists regardless of where a creature might be when they deal damage. If there is a niche card or ability that has a creature dealing damage from your hand, library, or graveyard, that damage dealt will still result in life gain.

Can a Planeswalker be killed by Deathtouch?

Accepted answer #1. Simply, it doesn't. A creature with deathtouch will destroy any CREATURE it deals damage to. Planeswalkers are not creatures, so they take damage like they normally do, i.e. a Deadly Recluse will still only remove 1 counter from a planeswalker if it damages it.

What IS Lifelink?

What wins indestructible vs Deathtouch?

Indestructible creatures also ignore deathtouch. Normally, a creature is destroyed if it takes damage from a creature with deathtouch. But since indestructible creatures can't be destroyed, they're immune.

Can you put indestructible on a planeswalker?

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.

Do shield counters stop lifelink?

What Happens to Lifelink with Shield Counters? Shield counters are a damage prevention effect, so they prevent the lifelinker's controller from gaining life because the lifelink damage was prevented.

Does Lifelink still work when blocking?

If I block with a lifelink creature, do I gain life? Yes. Any damage dealt by a creature with lifelink causes its controller to gain that much life, including combat damage dealt by such a creature while blocking.

Does regenerate stop lifelink?

Regenerate does not stop combat damage.

Damage removed due to regeneration is still dealt with, though. So, if my lifelink creature deals lethal combat damage to a regenerated creature, I will still gain life. But that regenerated creature won't be destroyed.

Does double lifelink stack?

When initially introduced Lifelink was a triggered ability. If a permanent had multiple instances of lifelink, then each of these separate abilities would trigger independently ultimately causing the controller of of these abilities to gain more life than the damage dealt.

Can you double up Lifelink?

As a static ability, lifelink doesn't stack, so multiple copies of the same static abilities don't do anything; they're simply redundant.

Does Hexproof stop Lifelink?

Lifelink works as normal even if the lifelink creature deals damage to a creature with hexproof, ward, or shroud. This is because the lifelink ability doesn't target the creature itself at any point but rather directly gains you life.

Can you bound in gold a planeswalker?

Loyalty abilities of planeswalkers are also activated abilities. Bound in Gold doesn't stop static abilities from affecting the game, and it doesn't stop triggered abilities from triggering. It also doesn't stop mana abilities from being activated.

What is the unique planeswalker rule?

Planeswalker cards used to have a similar rule to the "legend rule": If a player controls two or more planeswalkers that share a planeswalker type, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners' graveyards. This was called the "planeswalker uniqueness rule".

Can you target a planeswalker with a creature?

Planeswalkers take damage just like creatures and players do, and they lose loyalty equal to the amount of damage they take. Damage can be dealt to Planeswalkers in two ways: Attacking with creatures: A player can choose to attack a Planeswalker with their creatures instead of attacking another player.

Does deflecting palm stop lifelink?

Deflecting Palm doesn't actually redirect damage, as many players commonly say it does. Since it prevents damage then deals damage of its own, lifelink won't matter for the creature whose damage was prevented.

Does Lifelink trigger twice for double strike?

Double strike makes your creature deal damage twice, so you gain life from lifelink twice.

Do planeswalkers have summoning sickness?

You may activate a planeswalker's loyalty abilities on the same turn you play it. For instance, you can play Liliana of the Veil and immediately use the "-2: Target player sacrifices a creature" ability. Do planeswalkers have summoning sickness? No.

Can you put a shield counter on a planeswalker?

Rulings. Shield counters won't work if the damage is unpreventable (e.g. Banefire). A shield counter will be removed and the creature or planeswalker will be dealt damage. Each instance of damage (and, for that matter, each destroy effect) removes only a single shield counter.

Does mirror shield stop deathtouch?

Mirror Shield - Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."

Do red instants have lifelink?

Red instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink. Whenever a white instant or sorcery spell causes you to gain life, Firesong and Sunspeaker deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Can seal of fire hit planeswalkers?

Enchantment. Sacrifice Seal of Fire: Seal of Fire deals 2 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker.

Can you shock planeswalkers?

Shock is a very solid card—but it's not the best at dealing with planeswalkers. You can sometimes double up on Shock to do the trick if you draw two, but even then you're two-for-one-ing yourself, and many times your opponent will have more than 4 loyalty on their planeswalker.

Can you fireball a planeswalker?

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