Convoke and 2 colour creatures?
Asked by kapow20 9 years ago
If you cast a spell with convoke and tap something like a Boros Reckoner do you just pick G or W to add to your pool of would both be added?
Technically, it is reducing the cost not adding mana, but it would be for either red or white (or colorless).
July 9, 2014 6:18 p.m.
Convoke says you can tap any creature for a colorless mana, or a mana of one of the creatures colors. Boros Reckoner is white and red, so you can tap it for a colorless, a red or a white mana.
July 9, 2014 6:19 p.m.
Dracoson, Convoke used to be a cost reduction ability, but they changed how it and Delve worked in, I think, the M14 rules update. It's now a way to pay the mana cost, rather than a cost reduction.
You'd choose to either add colorless, red, or white mana if you tapped Boros Reckoner for a Convoke spell.
July 9, 2014 6:47 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #5
Convoke no longer reduces the cost of a spell and it never has and never will allow you to tap creatures for mana.
What convoke now does is provides an alternate way to pay for the spell. You may tap a creature instead of paying for each mana needed to cast the spell. You may tap any creature instead of paying a generic mana, and may tap a creature of the given color to pay for a colored mana. Boros Reckoner
is both red and white so it may be tapped instead of paying any one of: generic mana, red mana, or white mana. It may not be tapped instead of paying for: blue mana, black mana, or green mana.
July 9, 2014 6:53 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #6
erabel it was a rules update in February that changed the way convoke worked. I think they waited until then so that people wouldn't anticipate something important having to due with untapping such as Inspired. The change from reducing the cost to tapping instead of paying made it so that you could no longer tap more creatures than needed to cast the spell.
kapow20 says... #1
Red or White even...
July 9, 2014 5:23 p.m.