Do Vizier of the Menagerie trigger the ability of Crackdown Construct?

Asked by lome1234 6 years ago

As the question, because [Crackdown Construct] ability is whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability.and [Vizier of the Menagerie] can always watch the top card of the library.So....can is be an infinity combo that makes Crackdown Construct +1/+1 many times?

BlueScope says... Accepted answer #1

You need to use double brackets to link cards: Crackdown Construct, Vizier of the Menagerie

Vizier of the Menagerie's first ability isn't an activated ability, "only" a static one. Being able to look at the top card of your library is simply true - you can do so whenever you wish to do so.

You can tell apart activated abilities by the colon : character, which seperates the activation cost (on the left) from the ability text (on the right).

As an example of abilities that are activated, you can look at the Deceiver cycle from Kamigawa, for example Cruel Deceiver - and you would need to reduce the activation cost by to do what you want (however, as you will quickly notice, cards such as Heartstone which do that are trying to cap the reduction so that you would have to at least pay a one mana per activation.

June 20, 2017 2:58 a.m.

shinobigarth says... #2

Crackdown Construct, Vizier of the Menagerie

No. Construct's ability triggers when you use an activated ability. Activated abilities have a cost you pay, followed by a : and the thing that happens (for example ": add to your mana pool"). Vizier letting you look at the top of your library isnt an activated ability, its just a static ability.

June 20, 2017 3:02 a.m. Edited.

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