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Gideon Blackblade

Legendary Planeswalker — Gideon MV 3

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What it does

During your turn, Gideon Blackblade is a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Gideon Blackblade during your turn.

+1: Up to one other target creature you control gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or indestructible until end of turn.

−6: Exile target nonland permanent.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-05-03

    If an Equipment becomes attached to Gideon while he's a creature, it'll become unattached during the next upkeep that isn't yours. The same is true of any Auras that become attached to Gideon that can't enchant a noncreature planeswalker.

  • 2019-05-03

    Any counters that are put on Gideon remain on him while he's not a creature, even if they have no effect on a noncreature planeswalker.

  • 2019-05-03

    If damage that can't be prevented is dealt to Gideon during your turn, that damage will have all applicable results: specifically, the damage is marked on Gideon (since he's a creature) and that damage causes that many loyalty counters to be removed from him (since he's a planeswalker). Even though he has indestructible, if Gideon has no loyalty counters on him, he's put into his owner's graveyard.

  • 2019-05-03

    If an effect causes Gideon to lose all abilities during your turn, he's still a Human Soldier creature and a Gideon planeswalker. This is because his first ability applies before that ability is lost.

  • 2019-05-03

    You choose which ability the target creature gains as Gideon's first loyalty ability resolves, not as you activate it.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Gideon Blackblade, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Commodore Guff 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Gideon Blackblade

8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Gideon Blackblade — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.