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.
You can choose not to find a basic land card, even if there is one in your library.
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 E01 — 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 #47 of *Archenemy: Nicol Bolas*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2017 Archenemy: Nicol Bolas release.
Card type: Instant, color identity red, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {5}{R} (6 converted). Keyword abilities: Landcycling, Basic landcycling, Typecycling, and Cycling.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #19,087 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Daarken. Rarix catalogs 1,287 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Daarken
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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.
