I think that Nahiri, the Lithomancer isn't the worse combo with this. It can actually win through commander damage with this card, gives itself +2/+2 each turn with the +2, and can bring back Luxior with the -3 to keep the beatdown going as needed. Not the most competitive combo but I think it's fun, at least.
Step 1: Equip this to a planeswalker while The Ozolith is on the battlefield.
Step 2: Flicker said planeswalker so its loyalty counters go to the Ozolith.
Step 3: Repeat as many times as you want. It doesn't have to be the same planeswalker, either.
Step 4: When you want to stop, make sure the planeswalker of your choice has this sword equipped before your combat step.
Step 5: Flood that last equipped planeswalker with loyalty counters at the beginning of combat.
The one downside I see here is the sword discourages minus abilities, so you might want to go all-in on your planeswalker beater and use only plus abilities in most cases.
Step 1: Equip this to a planeswalker while The Ozolith is on the battlefield.
Step 2: Flicker said planeswalker so its loyalty counters go to the Ozolith.
Step 3: Repeat as many times as you want. It doesn't have to be the same planeswalker, either.
Step 4: When you want to stop, make sure the planeswalker of your choice has this sword equipped before your combat step.
Step 5: Flood that last equipped planeswalker with loyalty counters at the beginning of combat.
The one downside I see here is the sword discourages minus abilities, so you might want to go all-in on your planeswalker beater and use only plus abilities in most cases.
Seems like a neat if convoluted way to get your PWs up to ultimate level pretty quickly.
This is a very cool card design. I'm not sure how powerful it will actually be, but definitely has potential. I guess because the equipped creature isn't a PW it won't lose its loyalty counters to damage, but still could accidentally kill itself if it activates a minus ability when it has damage sitting on it (like after combat). Like if your 5/5 non-walker gets chumped by a 3/3 but then you activate its -2 after combat, it will shrink to 3/3 with 3 damage on it and die. It also makes the PW vulnerable to a lot of removal that wouldn't have hit it before.
It's something I want to try in any historic brawl deck with a PW as commander, that's for sure.
Which other planeswalkers have great loyalty for their mana value?
This is also a nasty piece of work on any creature with +1/+1 counters on it - might Hardened Scales decks want to pick it up?
You could turn The Wandering Emperor into a flash blocker if you play her, give her Luxior at instant speed with Leonin Shikari, then target herself with her first ability. She becomes a 6/6 with first strike due to have 5 counters, and then getting +1/+1 from the +1/+1 counter.
Okay, now *that* is unique. They become a creature with...what, no types? This could do some really weird things
Yeah it's really weird they didn't give it any creature types. You'd think they'd at least give it like 'noble' or 'lord' or something since they can't just do human or what not.
Question about how this would work: An equipped planeswalker no longer counts as a planeswalker, so would they lose loyalty counters when taking damage? Or would those loyalty counters simply act as de facto +1/+1 counters on an otherwise 0/0 creature (along with every other counter)?
This could be really good with the tokens from Exotic Pets assuming they just got a bunch of counters put on them. Also, if we can get a deck going revolving around this and Planeswalker, along with hexproof: we shall call it Poggles.
Question about how this would work: An equipped planeswalker no longer counts as a planeswalker, so would they lose loyalty counters when taking damage? Or would those loyalty counters simply act as de facto +1/+1 counters on an otherwise 0/0 creature (along with every other counter)?
No longer being a planeswalker means the damage removing loyalty doesn't apply.
Question about how this would work: An equipped planeswalker no longer counts as a planeswalker, so would they lose loyalty counters when taking damage? Or would those loyalty counters simply act as de facto +1/+1 counters on an otherwise 0/0 creature (along with every other counter)?
Comprehensive Rules:
119.3c Damage dealt to a planeswalker causes that many loyalty counters to be removed from that planeswalker.
306.5. Loyalty is a characteristic only planeswalkers have.
306.8. Damage dealt to a planeswalker results in that many loyalty counters being removed from it.
(There are at least 3 different spots that the rules for `damage being dealt to a planeswalker results in counters being removed from it` are written in the Comprehensive Rules.)
Since Luxior, Giada's Gift says the equipped permanent is no longer a planeswalker, damage has no effect on the equipped planeswalker other than as damage would affect any other creature.
Maybe in the future there's a expansion or block that will be a RECAP or Flashback set that is about the past of dominaria where the original Blackblade Reforged and the Umezawa's Jitte would be printed in a new card that has EQUIP PLANESWALKER
Until now the original Akroma sword isn't found yet
Since Luxior, Giada's Gift says the equipped permanent is no longer a planeswalker, damage has no effect on the equipped planeswalker other than as damage would affect any other creature.
So if I un-equipment the Luxior, Giada's Gift from my Elspeth that was hit by a lightning bolt during the draw phase and re-equip it before combat to attack the other player but was block by a creature.
Do Elspeth power/toughness resets when attacking in the combat phase because I equipped and transfer Luxior, Giada's Gift to another creature before combat and return back to Elspeth then make her attack?
Maybe in the future there's a expansion or block that will be a RECAP or Flashback set that is about the past of dominaria where the original Blackblade Reforged and the Umezawa's Jitte would be printed in a new card that has EQUIP PLANESWALKER
Until now the original Akroma sword isn't found yet
Since Luxior, Giada's Gift says the equipped permanent is no longer a planeswalker, damage has no effect on the equipped planeswalker other than as damage would affect any other creature.
So if I un-equipment the Luxior, Giada's Gift from my Elspeth that was hit by a lightning bolt during the draw phase and re-equip it before combat to attack the other player but was block by a creature.
Do Elspeth power/toughness resets when attacking in the combat phase because I equipped and transfer Luxior, Giada's Gift to another creature before combat and return back to Elspeth then make her attack?
Not 100% sure what you're asking but damage stays until cleanup even if it stops being a creature. If your elspeth for instance was hit by a bolt, you unequip the sword, and you use the -3 to go from 5 to 2 loyalty counters, when you re-equip the sword her toughness is only 2, so she would be destroyed.
Edit to add: the bolt would not remove loyalty counters because she was a creature at the time. See upthread for that bit.
You can be gideon, you can be gideon, you can be gideon.
every planeswalker can be a gideon!
oh by the way it’s any type of counters so once again yet another Devoted Druid infinite
Which other planeswalkers have great loyalty for their mana value?
This is also a nasty piece of work on any creature with +1/+1 counters on it - might Hardened Scales decks want to pick it up?
Step 2: Flicker said planeswalker so its loyalty counters go to the Ozolith.
Step 3: Repeat as many times as you want. It doesn't have to be the same planeswalker, either.
Step 4: When you want to stop, make sure the planeswalker of your choice has this sword equipped before your combat step.
Step 5: Flood that last equipped planeswalker with loyalty counters at the beginning of combat.
The one downside I see here is the sword discourages minus abilities, so you might want to go all-in on your planeswalker beater and use only plus abilities in most cases.
Seems like a neat if convoluted way to get your PWs up to ultimate level pretty quickly.
This is a very cool card design. I'm not sure how powerful it will actually be, but definitely has potential. I guess because the equipped creature isn't a PW it won't lose its loyalty counters to damage, but still could accidentally kill itself if it activates a minus ability when it has damage sitting on it (like after combat). Like if your 5/5 non-walker gets chumped by a 3/3 but then you activate its -2 after combat, it will shrink to 3/3 with 3 damage on it and die. It also makes the PW vulnerable to a lot of removal that wouldn't have hit it before.
It's something I want to try in any historic brawl deck with a PW as commander, that's for sure.
you can get it with Urza's saga
Now that card combos with both Urza's Saga and Stoneforge Mystic. Good gosh, we're not safe now.
Yeah it's really weird they didn't give it any creature types. You'd think they'd at least give it like 'noble' or 'lord' or something since they can't just do human or what not.
They can't attack it anymore
This is the first place my mind went.
The second was Vorel of the Hull Clade.
I think this is powerful and is going to become expensive. Totally rad card design.
No longer being a planeswalker means the damage removing loyalty doesn't apply.
Comprehensive Rules:
(There are at least 3 different spots that the rules for `damage being dealt to a planeswalker results in counters being removed from it` are written in the Comprehensive Rules.)
Since Luxior, Giada's Gift says the equipped permanent is no longer a planeswalker, damage has no effect on the equipped planeswalker other than as damage would affect any other creature.
The same ruling applied to Sarkhan the Masterless and his +1 ability.
Yes. Imagine the sword is basically stuck on the accelerator.
This should had been what the Blackblade Reforged could had been.
Maybe in the future there's a expansion or block that will be a RECAP or Flashback set that is about the past of dominaria where the original Blackblade Reforged and the Umezawa's Jitte would be printed in a new card that has EQUIP PLANESWALKER
Until now the original Akroma sword isn't found yet
So if I un-equipment the Luxior, Giada's Gift from my Elspeth that was hit by a lightning bolt during the draw phase and re-equip it before combat to attack the other player but was block by a creature.
Do Elspeth power/toughness resets when attacking in the combat phase because I equipped and transfer Luxior, Giada's Gift to another creature before combat and return back to Elspeth then make her attack?
Not 100% sure what you're asking but damage stays until cleanup even if it stops being a creature. If your elspeth for instance was hit by a bolt, you unequip the sword, and you use the -3 to go from 5 to 2 loyalty counters, when you re-equip the sword her toughness is only 2, so she would be destroyed.
Edit to add: the bolt would not remove loyalty counters because she was a creature at the time. See upthread for that bit.