Sole Performer
 
Community Rating:
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Card Name:
Sole Performer
Mana Cost:
2GreenGreen
Mana Value:
4
Types:
Creature — Elf Performer
Card Text:
Tap: Add TapTap. Activate only once each turn. (While activating an ability, use Tap rather than tapping the permanent to pay for Tap.)
Flavor Text:
Elven tap is the official language of three very obnoxious planets.
P/T:
2 / 2
Expansion:
Rarity:
Rare
Card Number:
154
Language:
English
Rulings
10/7/2022 Sole Performer turns Tap into a resource you can add, much like mana. You spend Tap to pay for that symbol appearing in the costs of activated abilities. If you spend a Tap you have, you don't have to tap the permanent that has the ability.
10/7/2022 For example, say you control Prize Wall, which has "Blue, Tap: You get Ticket." You activate Sole Performer to get TapTap. You then activate Prize Wall, spending Blue and one of the Taps you got from Sole Performer. You could then activate Prize Wall again, spending another Blue and the other Tap. Prize Wall itself is still untapped at this point. You can then activate Prize Wall a third time, spending a third Blue and finally actually tapping Prize Wall.
10/7/2022 You lose unused Tap as steps and phases end, at the same time you lose unspent mana.
10/7/2022 Although Tap acts in many ways like mana, it is not mana. An ability that triggers from a creature tapping to add mana wouldn't trigger when you activate Sole Performer's ability, for example.
10/7/2022 Spending Tap allows you to activate the tap ability of a creature that's already tapped. Normally, you couldn't pay the cost of tapping the creature because it's already tapped. With Sole Performer, you don't have to worry about that. You have Tap!
10/7/2022 Spending Tap rather than tapping the permanent doesn't let you activate abilities of creatures that have "summoning sickness." That is, if a creature's ability has Tap in the cost, and it hasn't been under your control since the beginning of your most recent turn, you can't activate the ability (unless the creature has haste), even if you intend to spend Tap rather than tap the creature.
10/7/2022 You can't spend Tap to have a creature attack without tapping. You also can't use it to pay the cost of an ability that taps a creature without using the Tap symbol. For example, you can't activate an ability that says "Tap an untapped creature you control: [Do something]" with Tap.
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