<p><strong>Yes, Meteor Golem can target and destroy a planeswalker on the battlefield. The player is a &quot;planeswalker&quot; only in lore terms. As far as game mechanics are concerned, &quot;planeswalker&quot; has a defined meaning, and a planeswalker object is not a player and vice versa.</strong></p>
<p>A planeswalker in the mechanical sense is a type of object, a game entity that interacts with players and other objects:</p>
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<p>102.1. A player is one of the people in the game. [..]</p>
<p>109.1. An object is an ability on the stack, a card, a copy of a card, a token, a spell, a permanent, or an emblem.</p>
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<p>A planeswalker is not a creature, as you already noted, but its own permanent type alongside creatures and others:</p>
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<p>110.4. There are five permanent types: artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker.</p>
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<p>Therefore, if Meteor Golem can destroy a non-land permanent, then that does include a planeswalker on the battlefield.</p>

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<p><a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bMeteor%20Golem%5d">Meteor Golem</a>'s ability is "When Meteor Golem enter the battlefield destroy target nonland permanent".  Does Meteor Golems ability affect planewalkers, which count as players and not really creatures?</p>

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You may be confused by the "planeswalker redirection" rule that allowed the controller of a spell or ability that targeted a player to be redirected to a planeswalker that player controls. This has recently been removed in favor of rewording the spells/abilities themselves to let them target planeswalkers. In any case planeswalkers were always counted as permanents and not players.
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# Meteor Golem killing planeswalkers

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-09-14)

[Meteor Golem](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bMeteor%20Golem%5d)'s ability is "When Meteor Golem enter the battlefield destroy target nonland permanent". Does Meteor Golems ability affect planewalkers, which count as players and not really creatures?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You may be confused by the "planeswalker redirection" rule that allowed the controller of a spell or ability that targeted a player to be redirected to a planeswalker that player controls. This has recently been removed in favor of rewording the spells/abilities themselves to let them target planeswalkers. In any case planeswalkers were always counted as permanents and not players.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-09-14. Score: 10 | Accepted answer

**Yes, Meteor Golem can target and destroy a planeswalker on the battlefield. The player is a "planeswalker" only in lore terms. As far as game mechanics are concerned, "planeswalker" has a defined meaning, and a planeswalker object is not a player and vice versa.**

A planeswalker in the mechanical sense is a type of object, a game entity that interacts with players and other objects:

> 102.1. A player is one of the people in the game. [..]
>
> 109.1. An object is an ability on the stack, a card, a copy of a card, a token, a spell, a permanent, or an emblem.

A planeswalker is not a creature, as you already noted, but its own permanent type alongside creatures and others:

> 110.4. There are five permanent types: artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker.

Therefore, if Meteor Golem can destroy a non-land permanent, then that does include a planeswalker on the battlefield.


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