Indestructibility and planeswalkers
Asked by runelord 11 years ago
if you enchant a planeswalker with Indestructibility does that mean that your oppentent can't cause the damage required to remove loyalty counters from them?
if your planeswalker is indestructible, loyalty counters can be removed with damage, but cards that destroy (ie. Dreadbore ) don't destroy the planeswalker
July 28, 2013 2:04 p.m.
i always thought indestructible prevented the damage from being dealt? If a creature with indestructible is brought to zero toughness it is still destroyed (i.e. counters or -x/-x). So wouldn't that mean that damage is not actually caused therefore the loyalty counters would not be removed?
July 28, 2013 4:30 p.m.
Nowhere in the reminder text of the indestructible ability does it say that it prevents damage.
July 28, 2013 6:11 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #5
Neither indestructible (the keyword) or Indestructibility (the card) prevents anything. Damage can still be dealt to an indestructible permanent, but lethal damage won't destroy that permanent.
In this case, damage dealt to an indestructible planeswalker still causes loyalty counters to be removed from that planeswalker. If the planeswalker has no loyalty counters on it, it is put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action.
Also, creatures aren't destroyed for having 0 or less toughness. They are simply put into their owner's graveyard as a state-based action. This is why indestructible doesn't save them from -X/-X effects.
Zephiel says... #1
Damage can be dealt to anything with indestructible. All it does is prevent lethal damage from destroying it and "destroy" affects from destroying it. Planeswalkers, however, still can have 0 loyalty counters and be removed from the battlefield as a SBA even with Indestructibility is on it. Loss of these counters can still be done through damage.
July 28, 2013 1:52 p.m.