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Unpredictable Cyclone

Enchantment3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Every nonland cycler in your deck was priced on a simple premise: pitch the dead card, draw exactly one, move on. This enchantment tears up that math. From the moment it resolves, each cycling ability of another nonland card stops drawing and instead becomes a dig for a free spell that shares the cycled card's type, cast without paying its cost. The type-matching clause is both the steering wheel and the governor. Cycle a creature and you exile down to the next creature; cycle an instant and you fire the next instant off the top. That constraint stops the effect from being a blind free-cast machine and instead rewards decks that pack their cycling density into one card type, so the pile you burn through trends toward the spells you actually wanted to see. There is no loop to fear here, and it is worth being precise about why: the replacement effect casts a spell where a draw would have gone, so it never produces a fresh cycling trigger to feed the enchantment again. Each cycle resolves as one mana-free tempo swing, not a chain, and the uncast exiles simply get tucked to the bottom in random order. The card also carries its own escape hatch, cycling for two when it turns up without support, so it never sits stranded. The angle worth sitting with is scope: most build-around payoffs reward one card type in isolation, while this one retroactively rewrites the value of a mechanic printed across dozens of cards, converting a whole deck's worth of filtering into free spells.

Unpredictable Cyclone (iko)
IKO · #139rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

If a cycling ability of another nonland card would cause you to draw a card, instead exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a card that shares a card type with the cycled card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order. Cycling 2 generic mana (2 generic mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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