Unlike the normal cycling ability, basic landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a basic land card. You don’t choose the type of basic land card you’ll find until you’re performing the search. After you choose a basic land card in your library, you reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Basic landcycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with basic landcycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.
Basic landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being basic landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a basic landcycling ability from being activated.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from DDH — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #30 of *Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2011 Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas release.
Card type: Instant, color identity green, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {5}{G} (6 converted). Keyword abilities: Landcycling, Basic landcycling, Typecycling, and Cycling.
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.
EDHrec ranks this card #23,861 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Chris Rahn. Rarix catalogs 1,209 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Chris Rahn
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You can choose not to find a basic land card, even if there is one in your library.
