Toil to Renown Wording Clarification
Asked by Servo_Token 7 years ago
So I am working on a modern janky brew, and I found this card on gatherer. The wording will really dictate whether or not it is something that I consider.
Basically, do the creatures and lands I control need to be tapped for me to gain the life, or is it just tapped artifacts?
Servo_Token says... #2
No no, I'm asking whether or not lands and creatures I control need to be tapped.
So it is turn three, I control 3x Forest and 1x Tireless Tracker. It is currently main phase 1, and the tracker is untapped. If I tap the two forests to cast toil. How much life do I gain?
July 19, 2016 11:34 p.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #3
2 Life. Because all you have tapped is the two lands you used to pay for Toil to Renown.
If you had Omniscience out, or some way of casting it for free and all your permanents were untapped, you would just gain 0 life because it sees nothing tapped.
July 19, 2016 11:42 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #4
"Tapped" modifies "artifacts," "creatures," and "lands." Toil to Renown only counts the number of tapped permanents of each of those kinds; it does not count untapped anything.
Raging_Squiggle says... #1
For whatever artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control that are tapped, you gain that much life. There's no hidden meaning or requirement that you must have at least 1 of everything tapped to gain the life.
You could have all creatures tapped and gain the life, or all lands tapped and gain the life.
July 19, 2016 11:15 p.m.