Planeswalkers
From Magic: The Gathering
Planeswalkers are powerful spellcasters that can be recruited to help a player. A planeswalker card is cast the same as any other spell, and remains in play once cast. Each planeswalker has a planeswalker type; if one is in play and another with the same planeswalker type is played, both are put into their owner's graveyards.
Planeswalkers' abilities are based on their loyalty, which is tracked with counters. A planeswalker card has a number printed in the lower right corner; this is its starting loyalty, and it comes into play with that many loyalty counters. The planeswalker's abilities each have a positive or negative loyalty cost; this is how many counters must be added (if positive) or removed (if negative) to play that ability. Abilities with negative loyalty costs may only be played if there are enough loyalty counters to remove. Regardless of the loyalty costs, a single planeswalker may only use one of its abilities once per turn, and only on its controller's turn during his or her main phase.
Although they are not creatures, planeswalkers may be affected by damage. Whenever damage is dealt to a planeswalker, remove that many loyalty counters from it. A planeswalker with no loyalty counters, either through use of its abilities or through damage, is put into its owner's graveyard. There are two ways to deal damage to a planeswalker. If a player uses any spell or ability that would deal damage to an opponent, the player may instead choose to deal the damage to one of that opponent's planeswalkers. Note that planeswalkers are neither creatures nor players, so most spells and abilities cannot target them directly. Additionally, if a player attacks an opponent who controls a planeswalker, the player may declare any or all of the attacking creatures to be attacking the planeswalker instead. Those creatures may be blocked normally, but if not blocked deal damage to the planeswalker instead of the player. Planeswalkers count as Permanents.
[edit] List of Known Planeswalkers
Bo Levar (deceased)
Commodore Guff (deceased)
Daria (deceased)
Dyfed (deceased)
Freyalise (deceased)
Jaya Ballard (deceased)
Jeska (deceased)
Karn (unknown fate)
Kristina (deceased)
Leshrac (deceased)
Sorin Markov
Taysir (deceased)
Teferi (lost planeswalker spark)
Tevash Szat (deceased)
Tezzeret (currently brain-dead)
Urza (deceased)
Windgrace (unknown fate, possibly deceased)
