Ping

Ping (also known as "poke", "Tim", and "zap") is the slang term for an activated ability of a permanent that deals one damage to any target. Usually the cost is tapping that permanent.
==Description==
The ping ability used to be located in blue. After the color pie shift, pinging was relocated into red. Blue cards with pinging are <c>Prodigal Sorcerer</c>, and <c>Psionic Gift</c> and <c>Rootwater Hunter</c>. Red cards with pinging are <c>Prodigal Pyromancer</c>, <c>Cunning Sparkmage</c>, <c>Vithian Stinger</c>, <c>Goblin Fireslinger</c> and <c>Anaba Shaman</c>. The cards <c>Gelectrode</c> and <c>Hypervolt Grasp</c> both make a reference to blue's past pinging ability by using it on a multicolored card. Also a callback to blue's original claim is the <c>Fledgling Mawcor</c> from Time Spiral.
The ability has been largely excised out of common - <c>Vithian Stinger</c> was the last true pinger at that rarity. Even then, permanents that ping without a major cost (significant mana, resource sacrifice) have become much more scarce.
==List of Pingers== 
===White ===
===Blue ===
===Black ===
===Red ===
===Green ===
===Multicolored ===
===Colorless ===
====Artifacts ====
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Category:Magic slang
Category:Miscellaneous mechanics