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Recycle

Card Name

Recycle

Mana Cost

4

Type

Enchantment

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Skip your draw step.Whenever you play a card, draw a card.Your maximum hand size is two. (You discard down to your maximum hand size as your turn ends.)

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(2/1/2007)
Your maximum hand size is checked only during the cleanup step of your turn. At any other time, you may have any number of cards in hand.
(2/1/2007)
Countering a spell that has been cast will not prevent you from drawing the card.
(10/1/2009)
If multiple effects modify your hand size, apply them in timestamp order. For example, if you put Spellbook (an artifact that says you have no maximum hand size) onto the battlefield and then put Recycle onto the battlefield, your maximum hand size will be two. However, if those permanents entered in the opposite order, you would have no maximum hand size.
(7/13/2018)
To play a card means to play a land or to cast a spell that's a card (and not a copy of a card).