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Rooting Moloch

Card Name

Rooting Moloch

Mana Cost

4

Type

Creature – Lizard

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

When Rooting Moloch enters the battlefield, exile target card with a cycling ability from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.Cycling
2
 (
2
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Flavor Text

Their feeding habits leave them with gizzards full of tumbled gems.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Pauper, Standard

Rulings

(4/17/2020)
Rooting Moloch gives you permission to play the card as a land or cast it as a spell. You can't cycle the exiled card.
(4/17/2020)
You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the exiled card. If it's a land, you can't play it unless you have land plays available.
(4/17/2020)
You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.
(4/17/2020)
If you don't play the exiled card, it remains exiled.