Spellpyre Phoenix — ruling 1

Spellpyre Phoenix's last ability checks the entire turn. Cards you cycled before Spellpyre Phoenix was put into your graveyard count.

Spellpyre Phoenix — ruling 2

If you somehow cycle a card, return it to your hand, and cycle it a second time in one turn, Spellpyre Phoenix's last ability counts each time you cycled it and returns to your hand.

Spellpyre Phoenix — ruling 3

Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them, and some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.

Spellpyre Phoenix — ruling 4

Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren't spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as that of Cancel) won't affect them.

Spellpyre Phoenix — ruling 5

You can cycle a card even if it has a triggered ability from cycling that won't have a legal target. This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. This also means that if either ability is countered (with Disallow, for example), the other ability will still resolve.

Spellpyre Phoenix : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Spellpyre Phoenix is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card with a cycling ability from your graveyard to your hand. At the beginning of each end step, if you cycled two or more cards this turn, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

How it works : Spellpyre Phoenix

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1April 17, 2020· Wizards of the Coast
Spellpyre Phoenix's last ability checks the entire turn. Cards you cycled before Spellpyre Phoenix was put into your graveyard count.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2April 17, 2020· Wizards of the Coast
If you somehow cycle a card, return it to your hand, and cycle it a second time in one turn, Spellpyre Phoenix's last ability counts each time you cycled it and returns to your hand.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3April 17, 2020· Wizards of the Coast
Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them, and some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4April 17, 2020· Wizards of the Coast
Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren't spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as that of Cancel) won't affect them.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5April 17, 2020· Wizards of the Coast
You can cycle a card even if it has a triggered ability from cycling that won't have a legal target. This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. This also means that if either ability is countered (with Disallow, for example), the other ability will still resolve.
No other card is named in this ruling.