activated abilities

Guest · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject: activated abilities

does supression field affect disrupting shoals ability of you may remove a blue card from your hand instead of paying mana cost. is that a activated ability or no? and is it considered a mana ability. thx in advance.

st4x · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 358

no its not an abiltiy its considered playing the spell

Guest · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

activated abilities, are tap, or mana cost abilites, or like ravager sack, or pay for ability

CMA-Flippi · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject:

403.1. An activated ability is written as "[cost]: [effect]." The activation cost is everything before the colon ( Smile

. An ability's activation cost must be paid by the player who is playing it.