Can Harsh Mentor still shock the opponents planeswalkers?
Asked by Thebiggalactus 5 years ago
With the planeswalker redirection rule change, does Harsh Mentor still have the ability to shock planeswalkers? If not is it the same for every card that used to be able to do it?
ClockworkSwordfish says... Accepted answer #2
Since damage cannot be redirected anymore, and Harsh Mentor damaged the player responsible for activating the ability, he will never be able to point it at a planeswalker - since, after all, it's not the planeswalker activating the artifact, it's the controller doing so.
FancyTuesday says... #1
Y̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶H̶a̶r̶s̶h̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶c̶k̶ ̶P̶l̶a̶n̶e̶s̶w̶a̶l̶k̶e̶r̶s̶.̶ The change is that you no longer target the player and redirect damage to a Planeswalker, you now target Planeswalkers directly and they're going to change the language of targeted damage spells and abilities to reflect that. The errata is retroactive and is as follows:
H̶a̶r̶s̶h̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶a̶y̶s̶ ̶"̶t̶a̶r̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶e̶r̶"̶,̶ ̶m̶e̶a̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶O̶r̶a̶c̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶"̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶t̶a̶r̶g̶e̶t̶"̶,̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶h̶i̶t̶ ̶P̶l̶a̶n̶e̶s̶w̶a̶l̶k̶e̶r̶s̶.̶
EDIT: That's wrong. Harsh Mentor doesn't target, he falls into the 3rd category and cannot hit Planeswalkers.
May 22, 2018 2:35 a.m. Edited.