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Reptilian Reflection

Enchantment2 generic manaRed mana

Cycling normally pays you in card selection: pitch a dead draw, draw a live one, move on. This reroutes that discard into a combat threat. The enchantment sits inert until you cycle something, at which point it becomes a 5/4 with trample and haste until end of turn, then reverts at cleanup. Two clauses are doing separate jobs here, and it is easy to conflate them. The "until end of turn" duration is what makes the beater temporary: on the turns you do not cycle, it goes back to being a bare enchantment, invisible to anyone holding a creature kill spell. The "in addition to its other types" clause governs a narrower thing: while animated, it is still an enchantment as well as a creature, so during that window it is exposed to both creature removal and enchantment removal. The design reframes cycling from a pure card-filtering mechanic into a mana-free way to arm a body you already paid for, letting the same activation that smooths a draw also swing for five. The usual dead-card problem in a cycling shell is that cards you cycle are cards you are not casting, so the value engine and the beatdown clock compete for the same resources; here they draw from one activation. The animation is once-and-done per turn, though: a second cycle adds nothing, so the card wants a deck that cycles something every turn to keep the 5/4 available, not one that hoards cyclers for a single explosive turn.

Reptilian Reflection (j22)
J22 · #588uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a 5/4 Dinosaur creature with trample and haste in addition to its other types until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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