How does infect and planswalkers interact with each other??
Asked by Eric1827 11 years ago
Infect states that damage is dealt in the form of -1/-1 counters and poison counters to players. So with this in mind Plans-walkers have no power/toughness, but instead they have loyalty counters. Also anywhere it states Player in can be replaced with Plans-walker and vise a verse as long as the target is still valid i.e. destroy target plans-walker does not turn into destroy target player. In this case would your Plans-walkers get poison counters and would they affect them??
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
Infect only changes the result of damage dealt to a creature or player. A Planeswalker dealt damage by a source with infect would simply lose loyalty counters, same as always.
"Player" and "Planeswalker" are not interchangeable, and planeswalkers don't count as players in any way. The only thing players and planeswalkers have in common with one another is that they can both be attacked by creatures. There's a way to use damage spells that can target players to deal damage to planeswalkers, but that's due to a special rule about planeswalkers: If non-combat damage from a source you control would be dealt to an opponent, you can choose to redirect that damage to one planeswalker controlled by that opponent instead.
ZarBluestar says... #1
Since planeswalkers don't usually have a power/toughness, It doesn't get -1/-1 conters. It also technically isn't a player either. I've encountered this before. I'm pretty sure planeswalkers take damage in the form of losing loyalty counters. The way we handled it was to just remove a loyalty counter for each 1 damage the creature deals, even with infect. If you check the text stated after"infect" it says nothing about about planeswalkers, therefore infect is useless against planeswalkers. Also, I'm pretty sure that a card can only target a player or planeswalker if the card states "to target player or planeswalker".
July 29, 2013 11:20 p.m.