Fluctuator

Artifact

Cycling abilities you activate cost up to {2} less to activate.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Flarhoon13 on Kenrith, the Cycling King

1 week ago

May 3, 2024, I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

Aug 22

Blaine's house

Kenrith the Cycling King win. Fluctuator allowed me to cycle 10ish cards. Kenrith reanimated Archfiend of Ifnir and all of my opponents rode Kurtis' wave of salt and immediately conceded. Blaine's elves never balled, no mana dorks tapped for mana, Priest of Titania died sick. Rob folded Derevi, Empyrial Tactician bird tribal.  Only Spencer on Rat tribal stayed in but died to Kenrith and Ifnir beats; bringing my record to 24-26. People were salty .480

Icbrgr on New hubs to be added

2 months ago

To elaborate on what I said/my case for Fluctuator "Cycling" is not a mechanic unique to Premodern but "Fluctuator" as a deck is unique to Premodern due to the cardpool and banlist that separate it from Legacy and others. Fluctuator as a deck is a recurring article of discussion on the Premodern magic site being piloted by various "Celebrities" (this article is honestly just hilarious) in community as well as having a recurring presence in and out of the meta MTG Decks or MTG Top 8.

As its special place in the community/format its more than just "combo, reanimator, Cycling, creature cheat, artifact...living end-ish".... it's a Fluctuator deck.

Squee_Spirit_Guide on The Fluctuator

2 months ago

I knew from the name I'd like this deck, and I absolutely love it! Excellent use of Fluctuator!

Icbrgr on New hubs to be added

2 months ago

Is there any chance we can get a Fluctuator Hub for the Premodern decks? Its a pretty cool Combo deck that centers on Fluctuator but has cool variations for a deck payoff via Living Death and Haunting Misery/Drain Life.

Flarhoon13 on Kenrith, the Cycling King

1 year ago

Inaugural game went perfectly. Time of Need got Zirda, the Dawnwaker. An early Fluctuator allowed me to cycle about 7 cards early. Zur the Enchanter got Astral Slide, Escape Protocol and Training Grounds. So, when Kenrith, the Returned King finally came out, all of his abilities were reduced to a single coloured mana. Razaketh's Rite got a Palinchron, probably should've gotten a Herald of the Forgotten. My opponent had been kind enough to mill my Scholar of the Ages so I could search with Razaketh's Rite again, this time for the Dimir House Guard to loop Palinchron via Kenrith, the Returned King for infinite mana and the win.

crEepr on Cycling to Leng

4 years ago

So Library of Leng Fluctuator was an idea I had for a budget legacy deck once. I looked through the rulings on Library of Leng a bit more and found out that one of the rulings on the gatherer for library says this;” You can’t use the Library of Leng ability to place a discarded card on top of your library when you discard a card as a cost, because costs aren’t effects.” As the discard effect on cycling is a cost, sadly that didnt work. Very cool deck idea though, I can tell a lot was put in to it, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

mitchellmoncada2012 on Living End EDH

4 years ago

Where is Fluctuator?

joselemanouch on Timeless Wisdom v2.0

4 years ago

Well tabernat I tried to keep as much as the precon as I could, but the upgrade was three-fold:

1/ Upgrade the mana basse

2/ Add cycling pay off cards

3/ Ability to draw cards during everyone’s turn

I kept Eternal Dragon because it was an « on flavor » way of having ramp/card advantage. I only use it for the Plainscycling to either get a basic plains or a dual land. Plus the cycling cost can be reduced to zero with Gavi, Nest Warden or even Fluctuator. Although I haven’t been able to test it much, heavy card draw is mandatory and ramp is lacking. I’d suggest adding more mana rocks and counter spells to protect your tokens and artifacts from wraths.