Loyalty counter

Loyalty counter
Counter
Use	Loyalty
Placed On	Planeswalker
Introduced	Lorwyn
Last Used	Streets of New Capenna
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Loyalty counters are counters that are used to track the loyalty of planeswalkers. Loyalty counters are exclusively connected to planeswalker cards and are usually added or removed to activate loyalty abilities. Other abilities can cause them to gain or lose loyalty as well. Planeswalkers enter play with the number of loyalty counters printed on their card due to an intrinsic ability, lose loyalty counters corresponding to damage dealt to them, and go to the graveyard when they have no loyalty counters on them as a state-based action.

Rules

From the Comprehensive Rules (April 29, 2022—Streets of New Capenna)

• 122.1d The number of loyalty counters on a planeswalker on the battlefield indicates how much loyalty it has. A planeswalker with 0 loyalty is put into its owner’s graveyard as a state-based action. See rule 704.

Cards that interact with loyalty counters

Planeswalkers are only included in this list if they can interact with other Planeswalkers' loyalty counters, not just their own.

• Ajani Steadfast
• Ajani, the Greathearted
• Ajani Unyielding
• Brokers Ascendancy
• Carth the Lion : While templated as a cost increase, the functional effect is that the planeswalkers now add a (or another) loyalty counter with each activation.
• Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
• Confront the Past
• Dark Intimations
• The Elderspell
• Elspeth Conquers Death. III can put a loyalty counter to both planeswalkers and creatures.
• Forge of Heroes
• Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
• Gideon's Company
• Heart of Kiran
• Jace's Projection
• Light up the Night
• Liliana's Scrounger
• Mila, Crafty Companion
• Oath of Gideon
• Pestilent Haze
• Sanctuary Warden
• Semester's End
• Settle the Score

Generic counter interaction

• Aether Snap
• Animation Module
• Cemetery Desecrator
• Chisei, Heart of Oceans
• Clockspinning
• Deepglow Skate
• Doubling Season: Only affects the intrinsic planeswalker entry ability, not costs
• Ferropede
• Gilder Bairn
• Hex Parasite
• Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
• Maulfist Revolutionary
• Medicine Runner
• Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• Power Conduit
• Price of Betrayal
• Quarry Hauler
• Skyship Plunderer
• Soul Diviner
• Spinal Parasite
• Thief of Blood
• Thornmantle Striker
• Thrull Parasite
• Vampire Hexmage
• Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider : Affects both the intrinsic planeswalker ability and the loyalty ability costs
• All cards with Proliferate