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Energy Tap
Oracle Text
Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature's mana value.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Energy Tap is a very old-school blue utility spell that rewards you for turning one creature into a burst of colorless mana, making it especially attractive in control, tempo, and combo shells that can spare a body for a turn. The key is that the tapped creature must already be untapped, so the card plays best with creatures whose mana value is high enough to justify the conversion, or with creatures that have already served their combat purpose. In practice, it can help ramp into a larger threat, fuel artifact-heavy decks, or create explosive turns when paired with creatures that untap easily or generate value when tapped. A strong deckbuilding tip is to pair it with creatures that have vigilance, are cheap to cast but expensive in mana value, or can be reused via untap effects, since that effectively turns the card into a mana ritual. In Fourth Edition terms, it feels like blue bending creature effort into raw resource efficiency.
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Character Background
Energy Tap is a very old-school blue utility spell that rewards you for turning one creature into a burst of colorless mana, making it especially attractive in control, tempo, and combo shells that can spare a body for a turn. The key is that the tapped creature must already be untapped, so the card plays best with creatures whose mana value is high enough to justify the conversion, or with creatures that have already served their combat purpose. In practice, it can help ramp into a larger threat, fuel artifact-heavy decks, or create explosive turns when paired with creatures that untap easily or generate value when tapped. A strong deckbuilding tip is to pair it with creatures that have vigilance, are cheap to cast but expensive in mana value, or can be reused via untap effects, since that effectively turns the card into a mana ritual. In Fourth Edition terms, it feels like blue bending creature effort into raw resource efficiency.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-10-06 06:10:42 UTC