What is Magic Rule 702.15 F?

702.15f Multiple instances of lifelink on the same object are redundant.

What is the difference between triggered ability and activated ability?

Triggered abilities are put onto the stack the next time a player would receive priority after the trigger event occurred. Activated abilities must manually be activated. Mana abilities may be either activated or triggered, and they don't use the stack.

What is Rule 122.8 MTG?

122.8. If a triggered ability instructs a player to put one object's counters on another object and that ability's trigger condition or effect checks that the object with those counters left the battlefield, the player doesn't move counters from one object to the other.

When can you use activated abilities?

Activated abilities can generally be used at any time as if you were casting an instant. This includes when you're attacking, during your upkeep before you draw for the turn, and even on your opponent's turn.

Can you tap creatures not on your turn?

You can't tap a creature whenever you want. You can only tap a creature when you need to attack, activate its ability, or pay a specific cost. The same rule applies to untapping creatures.

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Can I tap a creature with summoning sickness on my opponents turn?

Can Creatures With Summoning Sickness Use Tap Abilities? No, they can't. It's explicitly stated that the creature can't attack or use activated abilities that include the tap or untap symbols in their cost when it's summoning sick. This can be circumvented with haste, but the common case would be that they can't.

Can you untap an untapped permanent?

The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that's already untapped can't be untapped again to pay the cost.

Can you tap creatures at instant speed?

Are Tap Abilities Instant? Unless they say otherwise, tap abilities can be used at instant speed. A creature can't use a tap ability (or an untap ability, like Gilder Bairn!) if it has summoning sickness.

Can menace block menace?

A creature with menace can't be blocked by just one creature during combat. This means that if you swing at your opponent with a creature with menace, they'll have to block using two or more creatures to deal with the incoming attack.

Can you use a tap ability while attacking?

Accepted answer #1. No, tapping a creature doesn't remove it from combat. You can activate it's ability anytime you have priority during combat (after declaring attackers, after declaring blockers, etc.). A tapped creature can't be declared as an attacker or blocker, but after that it doesn't matter.

What is the rule 704.5 g MTG?

704.5g If a creature has toughness greater than 0, it has damage marked on it, and the total damage marked on it is greater than or equal to its toughness, that creature has been dealt lethal damage and is destroyed. Regeneration can replace this event.

What is Rule 702.19 B MTG?

702.19b The controller of an attacking creature with trample first assigns damage to the creature(s) blocking it. Once all those blocking creatures are assigned lethal damage, any excess damage is assigned as its controller chooses among those blocking creatures and the player or planeswalker the creature is attacking.

What is the vanilla rule in MTG?

What Are Vanilla Creatures in MTG? “Vanilla” is a slang term used to describe a creature in Magic that has no abilities. It's just a basic creature with power and toughness, a type line, and mana cost, and usually a block of flavor text (check out Catacomb Crocodile for some premium vanilla creature flavor text).

How do you counter activated abilities?

Activated abilities cannot be countered by spells or abilities that counter spells, because they aren't spells. However, there are cards, such as Stifle, Squelch, and Voidslime, that do counter these abilities.

What are examples of activated abilities?

An activated ability is an ability (such as one a creature or artifact has) which has a cost to use, with a colon separating the cost and the effect. For example, Kor Sky Climber has an activated ability with a cost of and an effect of "Kor Sky Climber gains flying until end of turn."

Does cycling count as an activated ability?

702.29a Cycling is an activated ability that functions only while the card with cycling is in a player's hand. “Cycling [cost]” means “[Cost], Discard this card: Draw a card.”

Can 2 creatures block 1 attacker?

After your opponent declares their attackers you get the chance to “block” some of them with your untapped creatures. For each attacking creature you can choose one or more of your creatures to block it. A creature can't block more than one attacking creature at a time outside of some very particular circumstances.

Does Deathtouch work on Planeswalkers?

Deathtouch destroys creatures by inflicting one point of damage, Planeswalkers are not creatures so they are not affected by deathtouch.

Can you block with summoning sickness?

The only thing that creatures cannot do with summoning sickness is attack or use an activated ability that requires it to tap. Creatures with summoning sickness MAY still block.

Can you play a land as an instant?

Playing a land is a special action; it doesn't use the stack (see rule 116). Rather, the player simply puts the land onto the battlefield. Since the land doesn't go on the stack, it is never a spell, and players can't respond to it with instants or activated abilities.

Can you use artifacts on your opponent's turn?

use it on your opponent's turn to get the bonus effect of your Artifact! You can activate it during your own turn if you need to, but you cannot attack during the turn it's activated. In addition, if your opponent destroys it you'll be able to destroy any card on the field!

Can shacklegeist tap itself?

Shacklegeist also allows you to do something that Spirits doesn't often do: tap out on their own turn. You're incentivized to cast more creatures before your opponent's attack phase so you can tap them down. Tapping out on your own turn used to make things difficult, but now you have a good reason to do so.

Can you respond during untap step?

Normally, all of a player's permanents untap, but effects can keep one or more of a player's permanents from untapping. 502.4. No player receives priority during the untap step, so no spells can be cast or resolve and no abilities can be activated or resolve.

Can Seeker of Skybreak untap itself?

It can use its tap ability to untap itself.

Can you respond on untap?

In Magic, the turn is broken down in to many steps and phases, which give players the opportunity to cast spells or activate abilities at different points in the turn.