Hey guys can royal assassin be tapped to destroy a creature during an opponents control?
Quote from: Nanocarter23 on July 27, 2014, 10:11:19 PM
Hey guys can royal assassin be tapped to destroy a creature during an opponents control?
If you mean on their turn, sure. Activated abilities can be activated any time you could cast an instant (meaning, any time you have priority), including on your opponent's turn. Unless, of course, there's a restriction in the text of the ability, like {Birthing Pod}. {Royal Assassin} doesn't have a restriction, it only needs the target to be tapped.
Thanks anybody else agree or disagree? And my brother has a question about summoning sickness. Can the creatures block right away and just not attack?
Summoning Sickness just means that the creature can't be declared as an attacker or activate abilities that it has that have the tap symbol in their mana cost. They can block just fine.
Just to back up things, in case you're skeptical (or your brother disagrees), here are a few citations from the comprehensive rules -
116.1b A player may activate an activated ability any time he or she has priority
302.6. A creature's activated ability with the tap symbol or the untap symbol in its activation cost can't
be activated unless the creature has been under its controller's control continuously since his or her
most recent turn began. A creature can't attack unless it has been under its controller's control
continuously since his or her most recent turn began. This rule is informally called the "summoning
sickness" rule.