do cards like Earthquake affect me and my planeswalker at the same time?
Asked by leon_raymond 13 years ago
Earthquake deals damage to EACH player. Will it damage me and my planeswalkers? Or just me? or do i get to chose whether i take the damage or my planeswalker? or does the caster of Earthquake decide who takes the damage?
As a general rule.
Player A has a planeswalker on the battlefield. Player B, plays a damage spell : 1) a single target spell that targets players. He can choose Player A as a target, and on spell resolution, he may apply a redirection effect that will deal the damage to a planeswalker Player A controls. 2) an all around damage spell (Earthquake). At the time the spells resolve, he can choose to redirect the damage from Player A to one of his planeswalkers.
So, any damage that you receive from a spell that an opponent controls, he may apply a redirection effect to redirecct to your planeswalkers. You cannot redirect the damage, only the opp can.
Arc Trail cannot damage you and your planeswalker. Because Arc trail has 2 different targets, and the redirection is done resolution, which is after the selection of targets, and your planeswalkers are not legal targets.
If you have several planeswalkers out, Forked Bolt it will damage only one. The reasons are the same above.
a single amount of damage cannot be split between you or any number of planewalkers. (it will reguire several instances of damage)
KrazyCaley says... Accepted answer #1
It damages either you OR your planeswalker(s), but not both. The controller of the spell chooses, although if you cast it yourself YOU must take the damage; you can't redirect to your own planeswalkers. Note that this only applies to damage and not to "loss of life." Loss of life can only affect players.
December 10, 2010 12:58 a.m.