I was playing with a friend and I make my creature attack his planeswalker, but he "chose" to take the damage toward himself, saying he can block his planeswalker. I also used sorcery to take control of one of his creatures and attacked his planeswalker with it, but he did the same thing. Can he actually choose to take the damage that was dealt towards his planeswalker?
Yeah I saw that but I was hoping to get more because I showed my friends and they still dont believe it do you have any sources I could look at to show them?
I was playing with a friend and I make my creature attack his planeswalker, but he "chose" to take the damage toward himself, saying he can block his planeswalker.
No, he is not a creature.
506.3. Only a creature can attack or block. Only a player or a planeswalker can be attacked.
509.1a The defending player chooses which creatures they control, if any, will block. The chosen creatures must be untapped. For each of the chosen creatures, the defending player chooses one creature for it to block that’s attacking that player or a planeswalker they control.
The rules tell you that a creature can attack either a player or a planeswalker, and that if it isn't blocked and is still on the battlefield and attacking as the combat damage step happens, it deals combat damage to the player or the planeswalker it's attacking.
510.1b. An unblocked creature assigns its combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. If it isn't currently attacking anything (if, for example, it was attacking a planeswalker that has left the battlefield), it assigns no combat damage.
510.2. Second, all combat damage that's been assigned is dealt simultaneously. This turn-based action doesn't use the stack. No player has the chance to cast spells or activate abilities between the time combat damage is assigned and the time it's dealt.
And there is no existing rule that allows what your friend hopes to do, neither in the combat phase section (section 506 and the following, sections 509 and 510 would be what you'd look at in particular), nor in the rules about planeswalkers (section 306).
Your friend will just have to live with the fact that planeswalkers are vulnerable to damage by design. I suspect that will make him think they suck, but the truth is that they are designed and costed with that vulnerability in mind.
I'm a former judge (lapsed), who keeps up to date on rules and policy. Keep in mind that judges' answers aren't necessarily more valid than those of people who aren't judges; what matters is we can quote the rules to back up our answers. When in doubt, ask for such quotes.
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Do they have any sources that they can show us?
Your friend will just have to live with the fact that planeswalkers are vulnerable to damage by design. I suspect that will make him think they suck, but the truth is that they are designed and costed with that vulnerability in mind.