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creature\\\\\\\'s dont untap (rust tick)

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Date Posted: Wed Jan/26/11 at 3:10 pm

mcconnellj
Posts: 8
Joined: 07-Dec-10

use 2 mana each turn to tap a new creature (rust tick is not in the library)
Date Posted: Wed Jan/26/11 at 6:16pm

Ephemerance
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Joined: 18-Jun-09



[Edited by Ephemerance on 26/Jan/11 at 6:16PM]
Date Posted: Wed Jan/26/11 at 6:18pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

Or just get two rust ticks. Besides, Unbender Tine is the better choice for artifacts that untap.


[Edited by Ephemerance on 26/Jan/11 at 6:18PM]
Date Posted: Wed Jan/26/11 at 6:18pm

Ephemerance
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Joined: 18-Jun-09

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[Edited by Ephemerance on 26/Jan/11 at 6:18PM]
Date Posted: Thu Jan/27/11 at 4:39am

Draco_lich
Posts: 1073
Joined: 07-May-10

use it with Transmogrifying Licid to turn your opponents creature into an artifact, then it works
Date Posted: Thu Jan/27/11 at 4:48pm

newb
Posts: 175
Joined: 02-Feb-10

I don't think this would work because when you untap the rust tick whatever creatures that were tapped with it would be able to untap on their next untap step.
Date Posted: Sun Jan/30/11 at 2:29pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Newb your absolutly right,  rust tick can only lock down 1 artifact at a time
Date Posted: Mon Jan/31/11 at 9:56am

newb
Posts: 175
Joined: 02-Feb-10

I read at the gatherer that if you find a way to tap more than 1 artifact on the same turn with it, they will all stay tapped indefinitely.
Date Posted: Mon Jan/31/11 at 1:45pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

Yes. If you use something like Freed from the Real, you can put any number of copies of the ability on the stack. So long as Rust-tick is tapped by the time the abilities resolve, the targets will remain tapped indefinitely. This is because Rust-tick's state is only checked after the ability resolves.
Date Posted: Mon Jan/31/11 at 5:03pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

No, once the tick untaps for any reason the continious effect ends, even if it hasn't started yet. 

I know it sounds weird, so I am going to skip my normal paraphrasing and go here is the ruling. I bolded the relevent part

611.2b Some continuous effects generated by the resolution of a spell or ability have durations worded “for as long as . . . .” If the “for as long as” duration never starts, or it ends before the moment the effect would first be applied, the effect does nothing. It doesn’t start and immediately stop again, and it doesn’t last forever.

Example: Endoskeleton is an artifact with an activated ability that reads “{2}, {T}: Target creature gets +0/+3 for as long as Endoskeleton remains tapped.” If you activate this ability and then Endoskeleton becomes untapped before the ability resolves, it does nothing, because its duration—remaining tapped—was over before the effect began.


So once the ability of rust tick or another creature with a duration like that (seasinger), is activated the only way to affect more then one target is to copy the ability




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