Involuntary Cooldown
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SetBRO
Collector #53
Released2022-11-18
Rarityuncommon
ArtistEelis Kyttanen
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Involuntary Cooldown

UncommonColour IDMV 4
Sorcery
Tap up to two target artifacts and/or creatures. Put two stun counters on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Card capabilities
Sorcery
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (8)
wotc14 Oct 2022
If untapping a permanent is part of a cost (such as that of Halo Fountain's first ability), you may pay that cost by "untapping" a tapped permanent with a stun counter on it. The stun counter will be removed and the creature will remain tapped. However, the cost will still be paid.
wotc14 Oct 2022
If a tapped permanent with a stun counter on it would become untapped, a stun counter will be removed from it instead. This is a replacement effect.
wotc14 Oct 2022
Stun counters replace untapping for any reason, including players untapping tapped permanents during their untap steps.
wotc14 Oct 2022
Abilities that trigger when a permanent "becomes untapped" won't trigger if a stun counter is removed instead.
wotc14 Oct 2022
Stun counters exist independently of the effects that created them. If a permanent has no stun counters on it, it will untap as normal.
wotc14 Oct 2022
On the other hand, if untapping multiple permanents is part of a cost (such as that of Halo Fountain's last two abilities), you can't "untap" the same permanent more than once to pay that cost.