{"id":6512,"date":"2017-05-19T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2017-05-19T06:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:44:07","slug":"archfiend-of-ifrit-and-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2017\/05\/archfiend-of-ifrit-and-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Archfiend of Ifrit And Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Archfiend of Ifnir'><\/p>And welcome back! Amonkhet gave us back an old favorite ability in Cycling, letting you discard cards you don&#8217;t currently need to dig for cards you do. On top of that, there&#8217;s cards that synergize well with it, like <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=New+Perspectives&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">New Perspectives<\/a> letting you cycle for free if you have a hand of 7 cards, or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Drake+Haven&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Drake Haven<\/a> letting you pay a little extra for a 2\/2 Drake on top of your cycling. But, you may notice that Drake Haven triggers whenever you cycle OR discard a card- so does it trigger twice, once for the activation of Cycling, and once for the cost-payment of discarding a card? Same with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Archfiend+of+Ifnir&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Archfiend of Ifnir<\/a>?  The answer to both, somewhat disappointingly, is &#8220;no&#8221;. The act of cycling INVOLVES discarding a card- basically, it&#8217;s worded a little oddly so that players understand Cycling will trigger it. It would work exactly the same if it just said &#8220;Whenever you discard a card&#8221;- it&#8217;d work with Cycling, and also with discarding for any other reason (such as getting hit with an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Unburden&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Unburden<\/a>). In the past, cards like <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Astral+Slide&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Astral Slide<\/a> ONLY worked with Cycling, but the &#8216;new&#8217; kinds like Drake Haven and Archfiend are a little more flexible, is all. So you don&#8217;t get to double your fun, but you can trigger them much easier!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And welcome back! Amonkhet gave us back an old favorite ability in Cycling, letting you discard cards you don&#8217;t currently need to dig for cards you do. On top of that, there&#8217;s cards that synergize well with it, like letting you cycle for free if you have a hand of 7 cards, or letting you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,108,29,20,15,8],"tags":[1386,1387],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-activatedabilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-keywords","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-archfiend-of-ifnir","tag-drake-haven","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}