Can you tap howling mine

Learn more. Mining the Howling Mine Ask Question. Asked 5 years ago. Active 5 years ago. Viewed times. Howling Mine At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card. Improve this question. Joe W Octomjbber Octomjbber 3 3 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Howling Mine is one of the original cards, all the way back to Alpha, when there were "Mono", "Poly", and "Continuous" artifacts.

All "Continuous" artifacts were defined as only working while untapped, so this text is a carryover from when they got rid of those keywords. Apparently, not all formerly-"Continuous" artifacts kept this restriction, but the Howling Mine did. I'll be Scrooge this morning.

A fun multiplayer card until someone drops an Ebony owl netsuke Report Abuse. I think it's weird how the draw ability doesn't trigger if the Mine is tapped Since the untap step comes before the draw step could you not just tap this during your turn, then let all opponents go, untap it during your next untap step and make it so only you benefit from this card?

My favorite card :. On my turn 3, I cast Underworld Dreams. Reasons: - in a 5 player game, the howling mine gives my opponents each turn a total of 4 cards they could use to kill me, while drawing me only a single card to even that out - my decks are designed to work well without outside help - since the card is part of your deck, your deck probably relies on it and has some synergies with it - the card helps bad deck builders since they probably didn't add enough lands or card draw to their decks while punishing good deck buildings whos decks run well without outside help So yes..

It happens when the triggered ability resolves. All Rights Reserved. Gatherer works better in the Companion app! Flavor Text: The mine's riches never end, nor do the moans of the spirits doomed to haunt them. If Howling Mine leaves the battlefield before it resolves, then the last known tap or untap state of the card is used for resolution. It does not trigger at all if this is tapped at the start of the draw step, and it checks this again on resolution.

Turtlewax Joe Guest. Has enybody used this? If I came up with this idea first you heard it from me.. If not sorry for wasting your time Zadok Guest. Istanbul Guest. Mine gives them more permanents for you to try to tap, and even if you DO find enough creatures Lotus Mox Guest. Here's the combo