Chief Engineer + Myr Superion?
Asked by JDMCRIB 9 years ago
(I hope this is the right forum)
Anyway, I've been on hiatus from the game in a while, and I saw a pretty interesting and cheap Modern list somewhere. It was a Mono-
Artifact Ramp deck featuring Chief Engineer and Grand Architect. It looked really cool, but a card in particular caught my eye: Myr Superion. It was almost too perfect in my mind, but I just had to be sure so that I could playtest correctly.
1: Can you cast Myr Superion with Convoke from Chief Engineer? I'm not sure if tapping a creature for Convoke counts as "spending mana produced by creatures."
2: Can you tap a creature with summoning sickness for Convoke? As far as I can remember, summoning sickness only prohibits creatures from tapping for abilities and attacking on the turn they're played. Does Convoke get around this?
Thanks in advance.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... Accepted answer #2
yes you can, as you will not be spending any non-creature mana.
yes, you can tap a creature with SS to convoke.
March 31, 2016 6:53 p.m.
1: Yes, you can cast Myr Superion with convoke, because convoke's rules state that you can tap a creature instead of paying mana, so it gets around the "spend only mana produced by creatures" clause.
- Yes, summoning sickness only applies to attacking and abilities which use the tap symbol, not to convoke or abilities which read "tap an untapped creature" instead.
March 31, 2016 6:55 p.m.
1: Yes, you can cast Myr Superion with convoke, because convoke's rules state that you can tap a creature instead of paying mana, so it gets around the "spend only mana produced by creatures" clause.
2: Yes, summoning sickness only applies to attacking and abilities which use the tap symbol, not to convoke or abilities which read "tap an untapped creature" instead.
March 31, 2016 6:56 p.m.
JDMCRIB - Just remember to mark the answer you found most helpful using the "mark as answer" button.
Also just as a heads up - Renowned Weaponsmith and Vedalken Engineer are probably the best 2 creatures to allow you to ramp into artifacts. I played a deck that used those two to play turn 4 Batterskull or Wurmcoil Engine etc.
March 31, 2016 6:58 p.m.
ChiefBell - I chose Derpling's since it was the first answer. Also, I didn't even know those cards existed, but they're pretty sweet! I'll try to run some.
March 31, 2016 8:29 p.m.
Or you can use Heartless Summoning and just watch their jaw drop on turn 2.
ChiefBell says... #1
I'm just going to move this to the rules Q&A.
March 31, 2016 6:50 p.m.