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Cycle of Renewal

Instant — Lesson2 generic manaGreen mana

The trade sits inside the resolution, not the cost line: this asks nothing to cast beyond its mana, then during resolution it eats one of your own lands and replaces it with two basics tapped. The net is a single extra permanent on the battlefield and a freshly shuffled library, which is a smaller ramp step than most three-mana fixing but a cleaner one, because it launders a land you no longer want into mana you do. Feed it a spent utility land, a nonbasic whose ability has stopped mattering, or a land an opponent is about to destroy, and you convert a dead or doomed permanent into two functional ones. The instant-speed clause is what elevates it above ordinary green fixing: cast on an end step, it lets you hold up interaction and fetch only once you know what the board demands, or respond to targeted land destruction by cashing the threatened land in for value before it dies. The Lesson type adds a second deckbuilding axis entirely, letting the effect wait outside your deck and be pulled into hand only when the ramp is actually wanted, rather than clogging draws when it is not. It reads as modest color-fixing and plays as a flexible, on-demand mana engine with a recursion angle for anyone building around lands that would rather leave the battlefield than stay on it.

Cycle of Renewal (tla)
TLA · #170common
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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COMPETITIVEBRAWL
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TLR
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