Planeswalkers and damage prevention

External Since: Jul 26, 2005 Posts: 95

Few quickies regarding planeswalker damage...

1) If you e.g. lightning bolt your opponent, and they play healing salve to
prevent damage to themselves, how do the various elements interact, and who
chooses what? Can damage always get dealt to the Planeswalker regardless of
what damage prevention is on the player?

2) If they have e.g. worship out, is anything different?

3) Err...I can't think of any other likely scenarios right now.

4) Is there anything that will prevent damage to planeswalkers?

5) How about a way of making a planeswalker a creature without mycosynth
lattice?

Thanks

External Since: Mar 18, 2005 Posts: 303

Simon Cooper <swcooper DeleteThis @conecast.net> wrote:

> Few quickies regarding planeswalker damage...
>
> 1) If you e.g. lightning bolt your opponent, and they play healing salve to
> prevent damage to themselves, how do the various elements interact, and who
> chooses what? Can damage always get dealt to the Planeswalker regardless of
> what damage prevention is on the player?

419.9. Interaction of Replacement or Prevention Effects

419.9a If two or more replacement or prevention effects are attempting
to modify the way an event affects an object or player, the affected
object's controller (or its owner if it has no controller) or the
affected player chooses one to apply. Then the other effect applies if
it is still appropriate. If one or more of the applicable replacement
effects is a self-replacement effect (see rule 419.6d), that effect is
applied before any other replacement effects. If two or more players
have to make these choices at the same time, choices are made in APNAP
order (see rule 103.4).

There are two replacement or prevention effects that are eligible to
modify "Lightning deals 3 damage to opponent". Your opponent is the
affected player, so your opponent decides which to apply first. If they
choose to apply the Healing Salve effect first, that will be the end of
it. If they choose to apply the planeswalker effect first, you would
then get asked whether you wanted it to apply; if not, the Healing Salve
effect would then be applied.

> 2) If they have e.g. worship out, is anything different?

If the final result of any replacement or prevention is damage to the
opponent, the Worship will fiddle with the "Damage dealt to a player
causes that player to lose that much life." rule as usual.

> 4) Is there anything that will prevent damage to planeswalkers?

You mean like Fog or Ethereal Haze?

And keep in mind that noncombat damage to a planeswalker has to start
out as (unprevented) damage that would be dealt to its controller.
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