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*[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/27 "Cycling Round the Track" - An article on the evolution of the cycling mechanic.] | *[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/27 "Cycling Round the Track" - An article on the evolution of the cycling mechanic.] | ||
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz77X7XWlKs A | *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz77X7XWlKs A Planeswalker's Primer for Conflux: Basic Landcycling] | ||
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bnDQ4BKr8 A Planeswalker's Primer for Alara Reborn: Cycling and Landcycling] | |||
[[Category: Keywords]][[Category:Magic rules]] | [[Category: Keywords]][[Category:Magic rules]] | ||
Revision as of 16:51, 1 May 2009
Cycling is a keyword ability that allows a player to pay a cost that includes discarding the card. When the activated ability resolves, that player draws a card. Cycling has been perennially popular and has been featured in more blocks than any other non-evergreen keyword, appearing in the Urza, Onslaught, Time Spiral, and Alara blocks.
Typecycling
A variant of the ability, typecycling, allows the player to search his or her library for a card of a given subtype instead of drawing the top card of their library. The first cards with this ability appeared in Scourge and allowed a player to search for a land card with a specific land type. Future Sight then expanded the ability to search for cards with a specific creature type. Conflux introduced basic land cycling.
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