Trigger rules for Recycle
Asked by Sizzlewump 11 years ago
If I have Recycle out and I play Elvish Pioneer , will the enchantment trigger when the pioneer puts my land out?
Epochalyptik says... #2
To play a land is to take that land card from its current zone (usually the hand) and put it onto the battlefield by using an available "land drop" on your turn. Putting a land onto the battlefield as part of the resolution of a spell or ability does not count as playing a land, and it does not use a land drop or trigger Recycle .
CamperCarl00 says... Accepted answer #1
The "play" keyword is definitely meant so that when you play lands from your hand that it will trigger Recycle , but you in all technicality aren't playing the land when you use the effect of Elvish Pioneer . This is due to it being "put on the battlefield" and not necessarily played, so I would lean on the side of it not allowing you to draw that extra card.
April 6, 2014 8:33 p.m.