Tutorial 5: Planeswalkers

Planeswalkers are non-creature permanents. Any card that remains permanently in play is a permanent. Instants are not permanent since they enter play, resolve on the stack, and immediately go to the graveyard. Cards in the exile zone are also, trivially, not permanents during play because they have been removed from the game. It took me a while to pull a planeswalker and then I pulled two Nicol Bolas in back-to-back packs. Planeswalkers have a single value called the loyalty points, and if you attack them with creatures, the power you hit them with reduces their loyalty points. Planeswalkers usually have three actions. The top one usually increases the planewalker's strength by adding loyalty points. The second one is often neutral or a small negative number (say, -1 or -2). The third action always reads to you as the opponent as "ok, I am going to lose this game" when it is implemented. Look at Nicol Bolas' third ability.

Here are a few other planeswalkers.