Legendaries
Asked by blackout3625 14 years ago
I am confused. Can there be more than 1 legendary creature on the battlefield? Or is it creatures with the same name?
To expand on above answer.
When you have a legendary permanent (such as jace, the mind sculptor) on the battlefield, there is immediately a check made to see if any legendary creatures is present with the same creatures name. This applies to both the names, end of the card and now also to the name of the plaimswalker below the picture besides the word 'plainswalker - '. In the above case. Jace' would be the word.
So jace, the mind sculptor and Jace Beleren are considered the same legendary creature because of their plainswalker type.
If the opponent plays or has one already in play or even yourself, then all copies goto the graveyard as a state based effect.
State based effect means that this happens before players can interact with the effect.
September 8, 2010 8:51 p.m.
planeswalkers are covered by the planeswalker singularity rule or something like that. they don't have the legendary supertype. also, if PMS and barrelin' were creatures...strange things would happen.
Okay. Whenever something resolves off the stack, the game checks for state-based effects. Say you're in an 8-person free for all and one of your opponents has a Balthor the Defiled . You cast a Balthor the Defiled , nobody responds. As soon as he resolves off the stack, the game checks for state-based effects. Since this new permanent on the battlefield a) has the legendary supertype and b) shares a name with another legendary creature, both your opponent's and your Balthor the Defiled are put into their owner's respective graveyards as a state-based effect. Yours does come into play, and so triggers any 187 effects, and both of them leave play, triggering any leaves-play effects. However, if you had cast a Balthor the Stout , they would both have hung around since, while they share the legendary supertype, they don't have the same name.
September 8, 2010 9:46 p.m.
And to expand on cardcoin's answer just a touch more, those permanents can be on either side of the field. If I play jace, the mind sculptor and my opponent plays Jace Beleren , both are still destroyed, even though they are on different sides of the board.
September 8, 2010 9:48 p.m.
commoncents says... #5
So in that case you couldn't have a sliver overlord leigon and queen at the sametime either
September 13, 2010 5:04 p.m.
incorrect - they have different names. the legend rule does NOT apply to planeswalkers; planeswalkers have their own little special place in the comp rules. You can have one of each of those legendary slivers in play at the same time.
September 13, 2010 7:21 p.m.
you can have any number of planes walkers and any number of legendary creatures on the field as long as they do not share a name, EX. you MAY have (this is if you are playing 5c) a rafiq of the many, a child of alara, a lorthos the tidemaker an elspeth a garruk a liliana an ajani goldmane and a jace, the mind sculptor all on the field at once and they could all be alive
September 30, 2010 11 p.m.
KrazyCaley says... #9
But remember that jace, the mind sculptor and Jace Beleren would kill each other because planeswalkers don't operate under the legend rule- they "legend out," so to speak, if two planeswalkers share a subtype, in this case, "Jace."
Justarsaus says... #1
You may have as many legendary creatures on the field as you want... as long as none share a name of any creatures on the field (both yours and your opponent)
September 8, 2010 7:57 p.m.