How does the legend rule apply to planeswalkers?

Asked by FenixRises 4 months ago

Can I have Liliana of the veil, Liliana, waker of the dead, Gideon jura, and Gideon, ally of zendikar all on the battlefield at the same time without having to sacrifice any of them?

Crow_Umbra says... Accepted answer #1

Yes, you can have all of those planeswalkers on the field at the same time without having to sacrifice any of them. From the wiki page:

"Planeswalker cards used to have a similar rule to the 'legend rule': If a player controls two or more planeswalkers that share a planeswalker type, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners’ graveyards. This was called the "planeswalker uniqueness rule".

Starting with Ixalan, this rule was abandoned. [24] All planeswalkers past, present, and future gained the supertype legendary and became subject to the 'legend rule'. Thus, if a player controls more than one legendary planeswalker with the same name, that player chooses one and puts the other into their owner's graveyard. This has also enabled planeswalkers without types to be printed, such as The Wanderer.

The change was made to simplify gameplay. [25] [26] [27]

There are no current plans to create nonlegendary planeswalkers. [28] "

July 16, 2024 11:31 a.m. Edited.