can i tap my lawnor elves to add one mana to my mana pool and actvate a convoke cost
Asked by 18scsc 13 years ago
i am going to build a comvoke deck soon and might include mana prudcuers as convoke says for each creature taped as it coems into play and reduce it by coloerless or that creatures color , it dosent say tap it as aprt of a cost however.
convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by 1 or by one mana of that creature's color.)
This is the oracle reminder text of convoke. I does in fact mean that you must tap the creature to the convoke ability. It does not mean however many creatures you happen to be able to tap at instant speed while the convoke creature is on the stack.
Short answer, no you can not tap Llanowar Elves for G and for a convoke ability.
January 15, 2011 1:42 a.m.
SwiftDeath says... #3
also convoke counts as an aditional cost in the form of a may ability.
convoke states: as an aditional cost you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control, if you do reduce this cards CMC by 1 colorless mana for each creature tapped this way.
this is the simple way of explaining the convoke ability.
SwiftDeath says... Accepted answer #1
no they are two seperate abilities so it doesn't work it's the same reason why you can't sacrifice one creature for both Eldrazi Monument 's and Viscera Seer 's effects.
both abilities require the creature to tap to put the abilities on the stack so you can only choose one because when you do the creature becomes tapped and you no longer meet the requirements to activate the other.
January 15, 2011 1:41 a.m.