Now, like me (and you, as we have established), Persistent Petitioners<\/a> have a little trouble getting off the starting block in the morning- in this increasingly tortured analogy, this is Summoning Sickness. But what does summoning sickness actually stop them doing? A creature that is summoning sick cannot attack, and cannot be tapped to pay costs represented by the tap symbol (this also applies to abilities with the Untap symbol as a cost, but those are pretty much entirely contained in the Lorwyn block). So in this case, a summoning sick Persistent Petitioners<\/a> can\u2019t be tapped for its first ability- but it can<\/em> be tapped to its second ability. As long as the tap symbol itself isn\u2019t there, summoning sickness doesn\u2019t affect it! This is the same reason that Heritage Druid<\/a> in older formats can tap down Elves that were just played to make some mana.<\/p>\n Persistent Petitioners aren\u2019t the only examples of this in standard. Saruli Caretaker<\/a>, for example, has an ability with both kinds of tap cost in it- so that means the Caretaker can\u2019t be summoning sick, but the other creature you tap can be if you like. Similarly, Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca<\/a> can tap himself down (along with two friends) to draw a card as soon as he enters the battlefield!<\/p>\n So that\u2019s been a quick dive into tap costs. Hope you\u2019ve found it useful, and see you again on Wednesday, when your summoning sickness will hopefully have worn off! Until then!<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip was written by Alistair Crook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we discuss the difference between the Tap symbol in a cost, and the word “tap” in a cost!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,108,29,26,15],"tags":[1449,1447,1448],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-activatedabilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-costs","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-kumena-tyrant-of-orazca","tag-persistent-petitioners","tag-saruli-caretaker","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n