Landwalk creature attacking a Planeswalker
Asked by MetalMeister 12 years ago
Let's say I have some Mountain , a Perilous Myr and a Chandra, the Firebrand in play. My Opponent has a card:Glissa's Courier.
My opponents declares attack and points his courier to my Chandra. The rules text state that the courier is unblockable if the defending player controls a mountain. However, I'm not sure the defending player in this case is me or Chandra. Can or can I not block his courier with my myr?
I'd like to correct miel94 here on the damage redirection rule for planeswalker here.
You can only choose to redirect non-combat damage from a player to a planeswalker if you are the controller of the source of the damage, and also not the controller of the planeswalker.
You'd have to declare whether you're attacking a player or a planeswalker at the moment of attack.
To clarify on block-ability:
"508.1b If the defending player controls any planeswalkers, or the game allows the active player to attack multiple other players, the active player announces which player or planeswalker each of the chosen creatures is attacking.
702.12b Landwalk is an evasion ability. A creature with landwalk is unblockable as long as the defending player controls at least one land with the specified subtype and/or supertype. (See rule 509, "Declare Blockers Step.")"
Putting these two rules together, you'd notice that even though your opponent is attacking a planeswalker, you are still the defending player. Therefore, landwalking abilities still apply and go through.
August 12, 2012 5:32 a.m.
My bad, forgot to mention you need to say ur attacking the planewalker.
But ends up the same thing though, if u can't block a creature, he may attack the plane walker, if the attacker sais "i use this creature to attack the planewalker"
August 12, 2012 5:36 a.m.
Actually, it matters for which creatures are declared to attack the player or planeswalker(s) he/she controls.
A player can choose to not do anything to creatures assigned to attack him/her, but rather defend his/her planeswalker with bounce/kill spells even though the creatures are unblockable.
That's why the declaration is important. This is to prevent players from going "I attack" taps attacking unblockable creatures "Not blocking? Ok, all damage goes to your planeswalker".
miel94 says... #1
Chandra , as any plane walker, is not a player.
The rules for dameging a plane walker are: whenever you assign damege to a player , you may deal the damege to a planewalker he controls instead.
So his forest walker dameges you, but he just decides to put the damege on chandra instead.
August 12, 2012 5:13 a.m.