Cycling land

Drifting Meadow (Commander 2015), an example of a cycling land.

A cycling land is a land with cycling. Cycling lands which produce colored mana are taplands. As lands are the resource players are most likely to have an excess of (mana flood), cycling lands are often slow as mana sources but powerful in later stages.

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.

• 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) with cycling . Unlike previous cycling lands these have basic land types.

• Irrigated Farmland ()
• Fetid Pools ()
• Canyon Slough ()
• Sheltered Thicket ()
• Scattered Groves ()

Since Fallout's Commander decks, Design has begun a program to complete the ten color-pair cycles of lands that aren't viable for Standard legality. The bicycle lands began getting this treatment with the Edge of Eternities Commander decks.

• Festering Thicket ()
• Glittering Massif ()

The three remaining two-color pairs have yet to be printed.

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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 ()

Landscapes

Ten Landscapes were printed in Modern Horizons 3 and are also fetch lands; they tap for , can be sacrificed to find three different basic land types, and can be cycled for the cost of one mana from each of the three types. As the fetching ability is wordy, the adjective in the names interchangeable, and the cards have a colorless border, the cycling ability was given to put the color identity onto the card without increasing the power level significantly.

• Contaminated Landscape ()
• Seething Landscape ()
• Twisted Landscape ()
• Sheltering Landscape ()
• Tranquil Landscape ()

• Shattered Landscape ()
• Bountiful Landscape ()
• Deceptive Landscape ()
• Perilous Landscape ()
• Foreboding Landscape ()

Other lands

Besides the cycles there are three other lands, which enter the battlefield untapped and produce .

• Blasted Landscape — Cycling
• Ash Barrens — Basic landcycling
• Capital City — Cycling , also a filter land

One other enters tapped and taps for a chosen color.

• Night Market — Cycling