Can you crew with summoning sickness?

Summoning-sick creatures can crew vehicles, just as they can tap to activate other abilities like convoke. However, vehicles themselves are susceptible to summoning sickness — you can always crew a vehicle and use it to block, but you can’t attack with it the turn it comes into play unless it has haste.

Can you tap a creature with summoning sickness to crew?

Summoning sickness and vehicles. You cannot tap a creature with summoning sickness to crew a vehicle, it goes against the rule of summoning sickness.

Can artifact creatures crew vehicles?

Each Vehicle has a crew ability that turns it into an artifact creature. To activate the crew ability, tap any number of creatures you control with total power equal to or greater than the crew number. The creature can crew the Sky Skiff, and the Sky Skiff can then crew the other Vehicle.

Is crew an activated ability?

Comprehensive Rules 702.121a Crew is an activated ability of Vehicle cards. “Crew N” means “Tap any number of untapped creatures you control with total power N or greater: This permanent becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.”

Can you tap an artifact when you play it?

Yes, as long as it’s not a creature. Only creatures are affected by summoning sickness. If March of the Machines was in play or Ratchet Bomb became a creature by other means, you wouldn’t be able to tap it if it came under your control that turn. Otherwise, it can tap immediately.

When can you tap creature abilities?

602.5a A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol ({T}) or the untap symbol ({Q}) in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control since the start of their most recent turn.

Can tap abilities be played as an instant?

Tap abilities can be used any time you can cast an instant, excepting abilities that state otherwise (such as Birthing Pod’s).

Does summoning a creature count as a spell?

No, a creature is not a spell when it attacks. When you say, “I cast/summon Prodigal Pyromancer,” then the spell goes onto the spell stack.