{"id":3314,"date":"2013-05-17T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:55:09","slug":"you-cant-tap-a-cluestone-for-mana-to-activate-its-own-draw-a-card-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/05\/you-cant-tap-a-cluestone-for-mana-to-activate-its-own-draw-a-card-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t tap a Cluestone for mana to activate its own \u201cdraw a card\u201d ability."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Boros Cluestone'><\/p>There&#8217;s a small caveat in Magic: you can only pay any given cost for one ability or spell; you can&#8217;t use the same cost to pay for two separate abilities. That\u2019s just not how life (or Magic) works.<\/p>\n<p>Very simple here with the Cluestones. Since the Cluestone&#8217;s abilities require it to tap for both the mana and the card drawing, you can&#8217;t tap it once to fulfill both abilities (unless the Cluestone became untapped somehow from another ability). If you tap it for mana, you won&#8217;t be able to tap it to pay for the sacrifice ability. So you&#8217;ll need mana from other sources in order to fully pay for the ability that draws you a card.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Eddie Cheung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a small caveat in Magic: you can only pay any given cost for one ability or spell; you can&#8217;t use the same cost to pay for two separate abilities. That\u2019s just not how life (or Magic) works. Very simple here with the Cluestones. Since the Cluestone&#8217;s abilities require it to tap for both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108,29,70],"tags":[956],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-mana-abilities","tag-cluestones","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}