Gideon, Champion of Justice

set	min	mtgo
-	158.06	0.02 tix

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Name	Gideon, Champion of Justice
Type	Legendary planeswalker — gideon
Description	+1: Put a loyalty counter on Gideon, Champion of Justice for each creature target opponent controls. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon, Champion of Justice becomes a Human Soldier creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of loyalty countSee more
Artist	David Rapoza
Set	Jumpstart 2022 #189
Wallpaper	download
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About Gideon, Champion of Justice

Gideon, Champion of Justice, Legendary planeswalker — gideon, designed by David Rapoza first released in Feb, 2013 in the set Gatecrash and was printed exactly in 3 different ways. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 158.06.

A deck focused on controlling the board with a lot of creatures would benefit from using Gideon, Champion of Justice, as it can quickly generate loyalty counters based on the opponent's creatures and then turn into a powerful indestructible creature. However, there are other planeswalker cards like Teferi, Time Raveler or Teferi, Hero of Dominaria that offer more versatile abilities and are generally considered stronger options in competitive play, making Gideon less likely to see play in top-tier decks.

Rules

01/24/13

If Gideon, Champion of Justice becomes a creature due to his second ability, that doesn’t count as having a creature enter the battlefield. Gideon was already on the battlefield; he only changed his types. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield won’t trigger.

01/24/13

If Gideon, Champion of Justice becomes a creature the same turn he enters the battlefield, you can’t attack with him or use any of his abilities (if he gains any).

01/24/13

Say you activate Gideon, Champion of Justice’s second ability, and then an opponent gains control of him before combat. You may have any of your creatures attack Gideon, Champion of Justice (since he’s still a planeswalker). Then Gideon, Champion of Justice may block (since he’s a creature). He may block any eligible attacking creature, including one that’s attacking him! During combat, he behaves as an attacked planeswalker and/or a blocking creature, as appropriate. For example, he deals combat damage to any creatures he’s blocking, but he doesn’t deal combat damage to any unblocked creatures that are attacking him.

01/24/13

You put a loyalty counter on Gideon, Champion of Justice as part of the cost of activating the first ability. When that ability resolves, you count the number of creatures controlled by the target opponent and put that many additional loyalty counters on Gideon.