As it is currently implemented, the Battle Log makes it difficult to track Planeswalker life totals accurately. Here are two confusing things:
- In the turn heading in the battle log, the life total listed is the life total of the planeswalker at the -end- of the given turn. This is confusing, as the Battle Log otherwise keeps tracks of things in a linear order. I would expect that the life total listed in the heading for a turn would be the -initial- life total of the Walker in that turn.
For example, here Nahiri is listed as being at full life in the Turn 6 header even though she just took 5 damage from a Bushwhacker:
- Life gain is not tracked in the Battle Log at all, even though damage is. This asymmetry is unexpected; if damage is explicitly written, then life gain should be too. Not recording life gain makes it hard to track bugs with lifelink etc.
For example, here the life gained from the lifelinking War Oracle is not recorded, even though the damage from Chandra’s ability is. Life gains not recorded - Album on Imgur
(Incidentally, can someone tell me how to embed photos in a post directly from an iPhone? I’m bad at technology apparently.)