What cards have summoning sickness?

What Cards Have Summoning Sickness?

Summoning sickness is a fundamental concept in the world of Magic: The Gathering, and it can greatly impact the trajectory of a game. Essentially, summoning sickness occurs when a creature is blocked by another creature, dealing the blocked damage to that creature. However, that’s not the only consideration; creatures with summoning sickness are also unable to attack or use abilities while tapped.

Creatures and Summoning Sickness

In the Magic multiverse, creatures are responsible for summoning sickness, which means that only those cards with the creature card type are affected by the rules of summoning. Within this category, creature types can be further bifurcated into Land Creatures, Artifact Creatures, Planeswalker Creatures, and Enchantment Creatures – each with its unique gameplay mechanics.

Land, Artifact, Planeswalkers, and Enchantments

Land, as its name suggests, allows a player to generate three colored mana of their choosing when they play it into their untapped lands territory. This mana can, in turn, be channeled into various sorceries, instants, or permanents. Because land cards are not summoned in the classical sense, but rather "played" by their owner, they fall outside the realm of the summoning sickness rules, regardless of whether they yield mana or not.

Analogously, Artifact card types can also be both a permanent and a basic creature, but they do not experience summoning sickness, as they represent abstract, non-living constructs that don’t qualify under the creature type as far as summoning considerations go.

Planeswalkers and Summoning Sickness

Planeswalkers, on the other hand, are represented as non-creature creature permanents, which would technically be subject to summons’ rules. However, there’s an exception where the Planeswalker Card itself can be used after playing, without any summon sickness or restriction. This would involve an ability that only happens on the turn player uses them, which cannot cause the Planes walker’s own summoning disease

Enchantment Types

Lastly, Enchantments can also be in both forms, but they serve primarily as a permanent – so it’s not counted towards the summoning syndrome’s creatures. Enchanted creature cards, those under the enchantment’s magic effects, are not granted to experience summoning sickness (assuming it’s not just that one enchantment being active, which would be applied for both the enchant, if that’s the issue here, and the Planeswalker).

Cards Affected by Summoning Sickness

Herein, a list of prominent examples: