Cycling Payoff
Cards with a triggered payoff each time you cycle (or cycle-or-discard) a card, turning cycling from pure card filtering into a recurring engine. Astral Drift and Astral Slide blink a creature on every cycle; Archfiend of Ifnir spreads -1/-1 counters; Drannith Stinger deals damage to each opponent; Drake Haven makes flyers; Curator of Mysteries scrys. Distinct from the has_cycling keyword tag, which marks cards that simply HAVE cycling, from cycling enablers like New Perspectives that only cheapen cycling, and from single-card self-cycle triggers (Decree of Justice) that reward cycling only themselves rather than cycling as a strategy.
Example cards
Also known as
- cycling matters
- cycling synergy
- cycling reward
- cycle payoff
- cycling engine
- whenever you cycle


