Cycling land
A cycling land is a land with cycling. Cycling lands which produce colored mana are taplands.
Examples
Example 1
Drifting Meadow
Land
Drifting Meadow enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Example 2
Secluded Steppe
Land
Secluded Steppe enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Mono-colored cycling lands
2 cycling lands
Cycling lands were introduced in Urza's Saga with the Cycling ability.
- Drifting Meadow ()
- Remote Isle ()
- Polluted Mire ()
- Smoldering Crater ()
- Slippery Karst ()
M cycling lands
Later in Onslaught, were introduced another variant with the Cycling M ability, where M is the associated color of each land. They were reprinted in Modern Horizons and are therefore Modern legal.[1]
- Secluded Steppe ()
- Lonely Sandbar ()
- Barren Moor ()
- Forgotten Cave ()
- Tranquil Thicket ()
Cycling Deserts
Hour of Devastation added the Godless Deserts, another variant with the Cycling M ability, were M is the associated color of each land. They are Deserts.
- Desert of the True ()
- Desert of the Mindful ()
- Desert of the Glorified ()
- Desert of the Fervent ()
- Desert of the Indomitable ()
Dual-colored cycling lands
Amonkhet added allied colored dual lands (also known as bicycle lands[2]) with the Cycling ability. Unlike other cycling lands these have basic land types.[3]
- Irrigated Farmland (/)
- Fetid Pools (/)
- Canyon Slough (/)
- Sheltered Thicket (/)
- Scattered Groves (/)
Triome lands
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths' introduced a cycle of wedge-colored cycling lands (also known as tricycle lands) that each have the Cycling ability. Like the bicycle lands, these lands have basic land types.
- Indatha Triome (//)
- Raugrin Triome (//)
- Zagoth Triome (//)
- Savai Triome (//)
- Ketria Triome (//)
Streets of New Capenna completed the cycle with the shard-colored versions, though not named Triomes, rather themed as the base of power of the Capennan gang crime lords ("hideouts").
- Jetmir's Garden (//)
- Ziatora's Proving Ground (//)
- Xander's Lounge (//)
- Raffine's Tower (//)
- Spara's Headquarters (//)
Other lands
Besides the cycles there are two other lands, which enter the battlefield untapped and produce .
- Blasted Landscape — Cycling
- Ash Barrens — Basic landcycling
References
- ↑ Brian Braun-Duin (May 29, 2019). "Hitting for the Cycle". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Unfinished Land Cycles in Commander Decks?? A Mana Chat! (Video). Good Morning Magic. YouTube (April 23, 2024).
- ↑ Sam Stoddard (March 31, 2017). "Cycling Duels". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.