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MTG Cycling keyword rules and best cards

MTG Cycling keyword rules and best cards

Here’s how Magic: the Gathering’s Cycling mechanic, which lets you chuck unwanted cards away, works – everything you need to know about MTG Cycling In…

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Here’s how Magic: the Gathering’s Cycling mechanic, which lets you chuck unwanted cards away, works – everything you need to know about MTG Cycling In Magic: The Gathering, sometimes you’ll have a handful of rubbish, your best cards disobediently hiding somewhere within your deck. That’s when MTG Cycling is at its best. This keyword ability lets you pay a cost to discard a Cycling card, and then draw a new one. It synergises well with other cards that care about your graveyard or discarding or drawing cards – and there are plenty of dedicated Cycling synergies too. Here we’ll cover the history of the Cycling keyword, exactly how the mechanic works, and some of the top MTG Cycling cards.

Got a general case of keyword confusion? You may need our MTG Companion , MTG Cascade , and MTG Hexproof guides. And while you’re here, feel free to check out all the MTG 2023 release dates and MTG Arena codes . MTG Cycling history

Cycling first appeared in the Urza’s Saga expansion in 1998, but it was actually designed a little earlier. Richard Garfield came up with the concept the year before, and originally planned to put Cycling into Tempest – but the set already had too much going on.

Over 200 cards have featured MTG’s Cycling keyword, or some variant of it, and since the keyword was created it’s popped up across plenty of sets, in Alara, Time Spiral, Amonkhet, and Ikoria, to name a few. However, it wasn’t until mid-2022 […]

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