Pale Recluse

Creature — Spider 4/5, 4WG (6)

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

Forestcycling {2}, plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Illus. Cyril Van Der Haegen

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2009: Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn't allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
• 5/1/2009: Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated.
• 5/1/2009: You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library.
• 5/1/2009: A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn't have to be a basic land.
• 5/1/2009: You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern