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Feed the Cycle

Feed the Cycle

Instant

uncommon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay . (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

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Semantic Tags

Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.

Food Mattersmechanical

Food token synergies — creation, sacrifice, and artifact interactions.

Graveyard Hatemechanical

Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Removalmechanical

Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.

Broadly benefits from sacrificing permanents — overlaps aristocrats but includes non-creature sacrifice.

Slows opponents down by taxing actions or restricting what they can do.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardlegal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemylegal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Bloomburrow#94uncommon···

Related Concepts

Forage

To pay a cost of exiling three cards from your graveyard or sacrificing a Food. See rule 701.61, “Forage.”

Related Rules

701.61

Forage

701.61a

To forage means “Exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.”

Rulings

2024-07-26

If you don't have enough cards in your graveyard or a Food on the battlefield, you can't choose to forage.

2024-07-26

Once you announce that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard or Foods you control to stop you from foraging.

2024-11-08

Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

2024-11-08

You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.

2024-11-08

Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.