Animate Land and Summoning Sickness
Asked by GLBoxingGlove 14 years ago
Assuming you control a land for more than a turn then you animate it, will it have summoning sickness?
Since it will have been a creature for less than a turn, or since the land (permanent) had been will the SS be skipped?
No it will not have summoning sickness...
Say its turn one and you play an Inkmoth Nexus . Next turn you play a land. You decide to activate the Inkmoth Nexus . You can then swing with it.
May 13, 2011 2:27 p.m.
oulani has it right there. Every permanent is subject to 'summoning sickness', it just only has any effect on creatures. Creatures are the only type of card that has a "if you controlled this since the beginning of your upkeep" restriction on using it. Other permanent types just ignore it. This is also true of permanents that become creatures too. If you play Mana Crypt and animate your Blinkmoth Nexus on the first turn, your animated creature won't be able to attack (or even tap for mana, unless I'm mistaken).
May 13, 2011 2:38 p.m.
Should maybe clarify, 'summoning sickness' checks whether the permanent in question has been under your control continuously since the beginning of your last upkeep. If it hasn't, and it's a creature, it can't attack or use abilities with the 'tap' symbol in their activation costs.
oulani says... Accepted answer #1
Any permanent actually is subject to summoning sickness if it hasn't been under your control since the start of your last turn, but it only has an effect on creatures.
Summoning sickness doesn't care how long the permanent has been a creature, just if that creature has been under your control since the beginning of the turn.
So in your case the animated land will not be subject to summoning sickness.
May 13, 2011 2:25 p.m.