Tap

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To tap a permanent means to turn it sideways to show it has been used. The tap symbol is shown as {T}.

How it works

• Many costs require tapping a permanent. Attacking taps a creature (unless it has vigilance). Producing mana from a land usually taps it.
• A tapped permanent stays tapped until something untaps it, normally during its controller's untap step.

Rules notes

• A tapped creature cannot attack and cannot be declared as a blocker.
• Tapping a permanent for a cost requires it to be untapped; you cannot tap something already tapped to pay a {T} cost.
• Tapping by itself does not stop a permanent's other abilities unless an effect says so.

Rule reference

[701.26]