Since I started playing Magic The Gathering over a decade ago, Planeswalkers have easily become the most iconic card type in the game. As a whole, Planeswalkers are spells that players can cast and enter the battlefield as legendary nonland permanents. Each Planeswalker will have loyalty counters that can be spent to activate Loyalty abilities once per turn.
For example, according to the lore of Magic The Gathering, every time you are playing a game of Magic, you The player are a Planeswalker. This crash course on everything you need to know about Planeswalkers will have you ready to start summoning Planeswalkers in your games of Magic in no time!
Planeswalkers often act as the main characters of the Magic The Gathering stories. Before their official release as cards, Planeswalkers were just fictional characters in the story, and you, the player! Although the marketing focused on players being considered Planeswalkers within the lore of Magic The Gathering has somewhat reduced, the concept still exists and has not gone completely away.
Planeswalker cards are spells that can be cast for mana like any other normal spell in Magic The Gathering. However, Planeswalker spells are a unique card type that once successfully cast, enters the battlefield with a predefined amount of Loyal counters, and stays on the battlefield as a Planeswalker permanent until they are removed from play. Planeswalkers used their loyalty counters as a resource system that determines what loyalty abilities they can activate each turn.
With Planeswalkers seemingly becoming even more important in the game of Magic I have tried to answer some of the most common questions I get asked about Planeswalkers from new players below. Hopefully, by reading the answers to these common questions I have put together, you should be able to cast Planeswalker cards confidently in your games of Magic and focus on how to best use them to help you win more games! Planeswalkers are not considered to be players. Only you or your opponents are considered to be players during a game of Magic The Gathering.
Take your pick:. These are a bunch of great characters that have been getting a push over recent years as well. We might be seeing them team up, or go head to head with, a couple of other planeswalkers that have been getting a decent amount of attention as well:. With so many great characters to choose from, together with the main characters, this leaves a lot of room to weave some very interesting stories.
Switching between characters creates tension and excitement to what will happen to our favorites when we see them again. Will we be going to Phyrexia? An amazing new plane? Ral Zarek Illustration by Eric Deschamps.
I mentioned before that there are a handful of planeswalkers that you can use as your commander. This is a sweet alternative to choosing a legendary creature that makes for different deck building and themes to build around. A commander planeswalker works exactly like a legendary creature as your general would, except that it can be attacked by creatures.
Just in case you have any doubts:. So far two Commander products Commander and Commander and Battlebond have contributed to this list of great commander options.
Great news for those of you who like to have many different faces for their commander decks! Estrid, the Masked Illustration by Johannes Voss. Double-faced cards or DFCs for short feature a secondary card on the other side of the card instead of the typical card back. In most cases, these cards are played with their front side up and transform whenever certain conditions are met as specified on the card.
Saheeli Rai Illustration by Willian Murai. The opposite goes for the worst ones: they should be unplayable in generally all formats. These are my picks for the best and worst planeswalker cards in the game.
We talked about great starter products in our best starter decks article, and planeswalker decks were high on that list and on the list of decks that come with free MTGA codes. This means that you and a friend can both get one and start battling each other right out of the gates!
There have been several discussions over the years about planeswalkers being too powerful and the arguments have heated up again with the recent bannings of these two bad boys:. Wrenn and Six Illustration by Chase Stone. So, the question is, are planeswalkers too powerful? That said, Oko, Thief of Crowns and Wrenn and Six seem to have either been intentionally pushed or their potential to break the boundaries of power level was somehow not noticed.
Upon release, this quickly caused multiple formats to feel the warping effect these cards had on the game. This meant that when they hit the battlefield the game centered around them and nothing else.
You either had to remove them or steal them or copy them. The difference is that those other cards need more than one card to achieve their goal. The problem with Oko, Thief of Crowns and Wrenn and Six is that just the one of them that does all that in one fell swoop. Balancing the cards out to make them more reasonable to play with, however, is the answer. Tinker ing with mana-cost or the abilities of these cards would solve a lot of their power problems and, with it, their ability to warp games and formats around them.
Once this balance has been established, you can enjoy both the game and the story together. Wizards needs to find a way to pick out the bad seeds that take the game into a realm where it stops pushing boundaries and starts breaking in a way that makes it no fun to play.
Time has taught us that when the game is fun it makes you want to play more , not less. You can snag some free ones using promo codes , buy them in the Arena store using gold or gems, or earn them by playing the game or participating in events. Next, you can craft planeswalker cards any card, really using wildcards. The last way to get a hold of them is by using codes included in official products. These are the three simple ways you can add all the planeswalkers on MTG Arena to your digital collection!
Casting a planeswalker as a spell uses the stack. When a planeswalker spell resolves, its controller puts it onto the battlefield under their control. Planeswalker subtypes are also called planeswalker types. Planeswalkers may have multiple subtypes. See rule This rule has been removed and planeswalker cards printed before this change have received errata in the Oracle card reference to have the legendary supertype. Loyalty is a characteristic only planeswalkers have. Planeswalkers can be attacked.
This rule has been removed and certain cards have received errata in the Oracle card reference to deal damage directly to planeswalkers. Damage dealt to a planeswalker results in that many loyalty counters being removed from it.
This is a state-based action. Main article: Planeswalker lore. Wizards of the Coast. September 3, Planeswalking the Walk" , magicthegathering. Planeswalker Types. Abian B. Duck Dungeon Master Inzerva Urza. By Format Venser Scale. Planeswalkers in Lore only. Spark The Multiverse. Card types , supertypes and subtypes. Creature Tribal. List of creature types. List of planeswalker types. Make sure it fits your deck.
Some Planeswalkers , like Chandra, the Firebrand work in all sorts of decks. However some, like Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded , need to be planned with from the beginning.
Combos combos combos. Planeswalkers are powerful cards. A Planeswalker in the right deck is game winning. For example, a burn deck with Chandra, the Firebrand has an edge. You're welcome. Keeping Planeswalkers alive can be hard. Especially if your opponent knows what's coming. Try to keep creatures ready to block before you cast your Planeswalker and try to make sure you have some instants in your hand just in case.
Also note that a Planeswalker can keep you alive by distracting your opponents from your life total. Magic: The Gathering Wiki Explore. Card Types. Creature Creature Types. Clue Contraption Equipment Fortification.
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