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[Velrun]

Can someone from a rules perspective explain to me what exactly are all the steps in cycling a


?

- I pay 3 mana and put the cycling ability on the stack.
- My opponent gets to respond or even Stifle.
- I pay additional mana and put the Soldier ability on the stack.
- My opponent gets to respond or even Stifle.
- I create the tokens.
- My opponent gets to respond or even Stifle.
- I draw a card.

Is something wrong in this chain? Do I have to pay all the mana at the same time?

Thank you

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Can someone from a rules perspective explain to me what exactly are all the steps in cycling a


?

Scryfall lays out the rules quite nicely (at the bottom):

“When you cycle this card, first the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability.”

“The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn't resolve (because, for example, it has been countered, or all of its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve, and you'll draw a card.”

So the order is:
- You cycle Decree of Justice.
- The triggered ability (to create Soldier tokens) triggers.
- Your opponent can use Stifle to counter either the cycling ability or the triggered (Soldier tokens) ability.
- The triggered (Soldier tokens) ability resolves. While resolving it asks you to pay X and then X Soldier tokens will be created.
- Your opponent can use Stifle to counter the cycling ability.
- The cycling ability resolves and you draw a card.

Nobody receives priority while the triggered ability is resolving, so you have to counter it before you know how much your opponent is going to spend. There is no point at which you know the value of X and you can still counter the effect.

 

[Seeker]

It's reasonably likely that the cards are real (at the end of the day, WotC prints what they will), but I'm just getting "really well done custom card" vibes from them.

so with everything announced for 2026 today, we have all the sets (but Ninja Turtles) confirmed and these Lorwyn Eclipsed spoilers:

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Ashling makes me think Sygg is real (though I don't expect a ten card cycle, I expect something like the 8 creature types of Lorwyn or something)

Also I love the hybrid-evoke and if-X-was-spent design on Emptiness. What a design!

 

[LadyMapi]

Hmm, that does make them more likely, but I'm still reluctant to believe them.

Emptiness is a really cool design, though, and makes me hopeful that we're going to see more Evoke.

 

[Seeker]

Evoke's up there on the "mechanics I want to see come back once a year" list, so ECL's looking promising.

 

[MilesOfficial]

To be clear, the leaks were 100% right, even about Star Trek. I'm stoked about that but it feels like a monkey paw thing with the office and the furby secret lairs also announced.......

Base version looks good. I like it a lot. Still......way too much text.



Love the reminder text.

 

[ravnic]

Oh boy, I wouldn't mind if we got a bunch of cards creating mutavault tokens.

The incarnations look super cool, but no reminder text on even the regular english version kills them for cube imo.