Does crackdown construct ability include triggered abilities?
Asked by Lilic777 7 years ago
Say i have both crackdown construct and reckless fireweaver on the battle field and I cast an artifact that does enter. will the etb trigger from fireweaver count as an activated ability?
To elaborate on the above point, nearly all activated abilities have a : in the text. So like on Sol Ring you have T: Add 2 colorless mana to your mana pool. Since Reckless Fireweaver doesn't have a colon, his ability is a triggered ability rather than an activated ability.
February 16, 2017 4 p.m.
Specifically activated abilities have an activation cost which will come before a colon, such as the ":" in Blinking Spirit's ability. Some activated abilities are keyword abilities (like equip) where the colon appears in the reminder text and/or rules document, such as Bone Saw. Triggered abilities may have a cost involved to use them, such as on Akoum Stonewaker, but these still don't trigger Crackdown Construct's ability because they are still triggered abilities and not activated abilities.
February 16, 2017 4:07 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #4
No, these cards don't interact with each other.
There are three different types of abilities: activated, triggered, and static.
An activated ability is always written out as "Cost : Effect". Sometimes this text is packed into the full rules text of a keyword ability, like Equip or Outlast. Only activated abilities can be "activated", and this is the only type of ability that Crackdown Construct will interact with.
A triggered ability is always written to start with one of the words "when", "whenever", or "at". Reckless Fireweaver just has a triggered ability (and so does Crackdown Construct).
Anything that isn't an activated or triggered ability is some kind of static ability. There are several different kinds of static ability, but listing them out here isn't relevant to your question.
Note that Crackdown Construct specifically mentions abilities that aren't "mana abilities". A mana ability is either an activated ability that produces mana or a triggered ability that produces mana and triggers off of another mana ability. A mana ability also can't have targets and can't be a loyalty ability of a Planeswalker (abilities like these that make mana are just regular activated or triggered abilities)
February 16, 2017 5:09 p.m.
Okay, i wasn't sure, it didn't seem right, thanks for all the answers! Much Appreciated
GearNoir says... #1
Don't forget to link cards with double brackets:
Crackdown Construct
Reckless Fireweaver
Activated abilities are abilities on a card that require a cost to be paid, such as the ability on Isochron Scepter. Abilities that work off of ETB such as those on Reckless Fireweaver and Crackdown Construct are triggered abilities - the card checks for a specific game event to occur and once that specific event happens, it triggers the ability.
Think of activated abilities like abilities that require you to pay a specific cost (tapping, pay mana, sacrificing, etc). Think of triggered abilities as abilities that passively wait for a certain event to occur (when X happens Y happens).
February 16, 2017 3:29 p.m.