In Magic the Gathering the card game can you have multiple planeswalkers in a deck?

Answer 1

A Planeswalker is someone of a sapient species like dragon or vedalken who can traverse the multiverse in the Magic: The Gathering story. Most stories now revolve around these Planeswalkers as they are certainly more powerful than most other characters simply because of their amassed knowledge of other worlds.

Answer 2

It depends on what you want from your Planeswalker.

In the current environment, based on monetary cost and popularity, Jace The Mind Sculptor, Gideon Jura and Elspeth are the "best" Planeswalkers.

Answer 3

In background terms, a planeswalker is someone who can travel between dimensions of the Magic the Gathering multiverse. This does not imply the individual is 'powerful' in any way, as they can often be otherwise perfectly normal people, but it means they do have access to a vast amount of knowledge and resources. Plus sometimes the individual is already a powerful wizard in their own right, even before they realise they are a planeswalker.

In game terms, a Planeswalker card is a permanent that is cast and put into play like regular spells. They receive a number of 'loyalty counters' equal to the number on the bottom right - this represents the desire of the planewalker to continue to aid you. Once per turn, at sorcery speed, you can use one of the effects, adding or subtracting loyalty counters.

They are not 'creatures', and cannot be affected by cards that only affect creatures, but they can be attacked, and direct damage to you can be redirected by the opponent onto the planeswalker, removing one loyalty counter per unprevented point of damage. If all their loyalty counters are removed, the Planeswalker no longer wishes to aid you, and the card is sent to the graveyard. Lastly, Planewalkers have a form of the Legendary rule, it looks at their type though, not name. So while 'Chandra Nalaar', and 'Chandra Ablaze' have different card names, they are both 'Planeswalker - Chandra' and represent the same person, and if ever two are in play at the same time, both are sent to the graveyard.

Answer 4

You can get them in booster packs just like any other card. Current sets with Planeswalkers are Lorwyn, Shards of Alara, Conflux, M10, and Zendikar when it is released. There are also limited edition promotional products like Duel Decks: Jace vs Chandra which contain planeswalker cards.

Answer 5

A Planeswalker is a permanent card that is cast and enters the battlefield just like an Enchantment or Artifact. Planeswalkers enter the battlefield with a number of loyalty counters equal to the number in the bottom-right corner of the card. For each Planeswalker you control, you may activate only one of its abilities per turn, and only any time you could cast a sorcery. That Planeswalker gains or loses loyalty counters equal to the number next to the ability as a cost of activating the ability. This means that you cannot pay more loyalty counters for an ability that that Planeswalker currently has on it. When an opponent declares attackers, they may have whatever creatures they want attack any one of your Planeswalkers instead of you. You can still block creatures attacking your Planeswalkers as normal, but abilities that trigger when creatures attack you won't trigger if a creature attacks your Planeswalker. If a spell or ability an opponent controls would deal damage to you, that opponent may redirect that damage to one of your Planeswalkers. Any damage, combat or not, dealt to Planeswalkers causes it to lose that many loyalty counters. If a Planeswalker at any point has 0 loyalty counters on it, put it into its owner's graveyard. If a player controls two or more Planeswalkers with the same name in the type line (for example: Planeswalker - Jace), that player chooses one of those Planeswalkers and puts the rest into his or her graveyard.

Answer 6

Yes, nothing stops you doing that. You can multiple, different planeswalkers in deck.