Do Indestructible Planeswalkers Lose Loyalty?
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Indestructible Planeswalkers do lose loyalty counters when dealt damage, as indecstructible only prevents destruction by lethal damage, not the removal of loyalty counters themselves. This means that while an indestructible Planeswalker cannot be destroyed by damage, it can still be put into its owner’s graveyard if all its loyalty counters are removed.
Understanding Indestructible Planeswalkers
What is Indestructible?
Indestructible is a keyword ability that prevents a permanent from being destroyed by lethal damage or effects that destroy. However, it does not prevent damage from being dealt to a Planeswalker, which can still result in the removal of loyalty counters.
How Do Loyalty Counters Work?
Loyalty counters are used to track the loyalty of a Planeswalker. When a Planeswalker is dealt damage, that many loyalty counters are removed from it. If a Planeswalker has no loyalty counters, it is put into its owner’s graveyard.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can Indestructible Planeswalkers Take Damage?: No, indecstructible means an object can’t be destroyed, but it can still be dealt damage, which removes loyalty counters from Planeswalkers.
- Does Indestructible Prevent 0/0?: Indestructible does not prevent a creature’s toughness from being reduced to 0, which can still cause it to be put into its owner’s graveyard.
- What Kills Indestructible MTG?: Indestructible creatures can be killed by exiling them, reducing their toughness to 0, making their owner sacrifice them, countering them, enchanting them, discarding them from their owner’s hand, sending them to their owner’s library, or bouncing them back to their owner’s hand.
- Does Damage Remove Loyalty Counters?: Yes, damage dealt to a Planeswalker causes that many loyalty counters to be removed from it.
- Are Planeswalkers Losing Their Sparks?: The Desparkening is an event in the Magic: The Gathering lore where planeswalkers gradually lose their spark, but this is a storyline element and does not affect gameplay.
- Can You Proliferate Planeswalkers?: Yes, you can use proliferate to add counters to your Planeswalkers.
- Do Board Wipes Affect Indestructible?: It depends on the board wipe effect; if it destroys or damages creatures, indestructible creatures are unaffected, but if it exiles or gives -X/-X to creatures, indestructible creatures can be affected.
- Does Indestructible Work Against Deathtouch?: Indestructible can prevent deathtouch from killing a creature, as indecstructible overrides deathtouch.
- What Are the Rules for Indestructible?: A permanent with indecstructible cannot be destroyed and ignores lethal damage.
- Does Infect Beat Indestructible?: Infect can still deal damage to indestructible creatures and give them -1/-1 counters, which can put them into their owner’s graveyard.
- Does Indestructible Prevent Legendary Rule?: Indestructible does not prevent the legendary rule from applying, which puts one of the legendary permanents into its owner’s graveyard if a player controls two or more legendary permanents with the same name.
- Does Indestructible Stop Trample?: Indestructible does not prevent trample damage from being assigned to the opponent.
- Can Planeswalkers Be Killed by Deathtouch?: No, deathtouch only applies to creatures, not Planeswalkers.
- Does Earthquake Damage Planeswalkers?: No, earthquake only deals damage to creatures and players, not Planeswalkers.
- Can Planeswalkers Be Attacked Directly?: Yes, Planeswalkers can be attacked like players, and damage dealt to them removes loyalty counters.