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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4773066" data-attributes="member: 71571">The term Crescendo uses isn't 'used'.  It's 'already used'.  Notice the use of an adverb modifies the verb form 'used' to mean something slightly different.I notice all the arguments here have forgotten that, and are therefore -woefully- incomplete.You have not -already- used the power when you are using the power.  It's not a matter of an expended state or not.  In this case, it's meaning 'previously' as in, have you previously used the power.  The using of a power cannot be previous to the using of a power by any logic that makes sense in any sense, baring the use of wormholes to carry yourself back in time to meet with yourself.Therefore, you cannot have -already used- Crescendo Sword during the use of Crescendo Sword.  It doesn't make sense.  Use of magic tapping rules (which has discrete timing for such things and as such, you never untap something during the tapping of it) is irrelevant because this is NOT the same ball of wax.  The power itself does not use the term 'expended' so talk of when a power is expended is irrelevent.  Using a power is a process that includes its resolution, and takes up an entire action.</blockquote>