Yes, the name is stupid. Luckily, everything else about this white Planeswalker is awesome. He will have a huge impact on multiplayer tables and is the best multiplayer Planeswalker yet printed.

Gideon, Champion of Justice costs four mana to cast, two of which must be white. He enters the battlefield with four loyalty counters and has three abilities. Each ability is awesome in its own way, and when combined together they become close to unbeatable.

Gideon’s first ability adds one loyalty counter, for this “cost” you add a loyalty counter to Gideon for each creature target opponent controls. You should gain a clutch of counters each time you use this ability.

Gideon’s second ability has a cost of zero; it neither adds nor removes counters to use. For this Gideon becomes and indestructible human soldier creature util the end of turn. His power and toughness are each equal to the number of loyalty counters he has. When you consider how many loyalty counters Gideon would have after using the first ability even once, you can see how great this creature would be. But wait, there’s more!

The third and final ability has a huge cost and a huge effect. The cost is to remove 15 loyalty counters from Gideon. Remember you have to have that many loyalty counters to use this ability, and you’ll want more. What does this ability do? Four simple words; Exile all other permanents.

After using this ability, there will be nothing other than Gideon, Champion of Justice remaining, assuming you waited util there were more than 15 counters of Gideon before using this ability. Players are building again from scratch, except that what they once had is now out of their reach in the exile zone. You have a planeswalker with an ability that turns himself into a creature. Using this ability with enough counters on Gideon (say 20-30) should see you kill your opponents one by one before they can recover.

Verdict: Awesome. This is a planeswalker you will love to have and hate to see.

Connections
Like Gideon, Champion of Justice? You may also like [Elspeth, Knight Errant] [Ajani Vengeant] [Karn Liberated]
Don’t like Gideon, Champion of Justice? You may prefer [Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker] [Tamiyo, the Moon Sage] [Vraska the Unseen]