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Pale Recluse

Card Name

Pale Recluse

Mana Cost

4

Type

Creature – Spider

Rarity

Common

rules Text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)Forestcycling
2
, plainscycling
2
 (
2
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(5/1/2009)
Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn't allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
(5/1/2009)
Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated.
(5/1/2009)
You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library.
(5/1/2009)
A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn't have to be a basic land.
(5/1/2009)
You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves.