Cycling

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You may pay the cycling cost and discard this card to draw a card.

How it works

• Cycling is an activated ability of the card in your hand. You can do it any time you'd cast an instant.
• Cycling does not put the spell on the stack -- it's a special action.
• Cycling triggers ("when you cycle a card, ...") still trigger.
• Most cycling costs are 1 or 2 mana; the cheaper, the more it acts as deck thinning.

Variants

• Typecycling: Plainscycling, Mountaincycling, etc. Discard for a basic land of that type instead of drawing a card.
• Wizardcycling, Slivercycling, etc. Discard to fetch a creature of that type.

Common interactions

• Astral Drift / Astral Slide / Astral Cornucopia: build entire deck strategies around cycling triggers.
• Discard outlets: cycling provides discard for Lurrus, Madness, escape, etc.
• Fluctuator: makes all your cycling cost 0.

Rule reference

[702.29]