Valley Rannet 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
Mountaincycling, forestcycling
Complete guide
Valley Rannet is a versatile Beast that ensures you never miss a land drop while providing a powerful body for the late game. By utilizing its landcycling abilities, you can trade this high-cost creature for exactly the color of mana you need to fix your board state.
Dual Landcycling Options
Valley Rannet features both Mountaincycling and Forestcycling. For a cost of two generic mana, you can discard this card from your hand to search your library for a card with the Mountain or Forest subtype. It is important to remember that landcycling is a specialized form of cycling; while it doesn't draw you a card, it triggers any abilities that care about cycling and can be searched for even if the land is nonbasic.
Activating and Resolving the Ability
To use this ability, you must have Valley Rannet in your hand. You pay two mana and discard the card as the activation cost. Upon resolution, you search your library for the chosen land type (either Mountain or Forest), reveal it to your opponents, and put it into your hand. Finally, you must shuffle your library. You can choose not to find a card during the search, though you still must shuffle.
Strategic Timing and Pitfalls
One common mistake is trying to use both cycling abilities at once; you must choose one and pay its cost specifically. Because landcycling is an activated ability that functions from the hand, it is difficult for most spells to counter. It is often best to use this ability at the end of an opponent's turn if you need to find a specific land to play on your own next turn.
Interaction examples
On turn two, you have no red mana in play but have a Mountain in your deck. You pay two mana, discard Valley Rannet using Mountaincycling, and search your library for that Mountain. This ensures you can play your red spells on turn three.
Seedborn MuseWith Seedborn Muse on the battlefield, your lands untap during your opponent's turn. You can use that mana to activate Valley Rannet's Forestcycling on their turn, thinning your deck and finding a Forest without tapping out on your own turn.
Etali, Primal StormIf you attack with Etali, Primal Storm and exile Valley Rannet from the top of your library, you can cast it for free. However, if Valley Rannet is in your hand instead, you cannot use Etali to cast it; you must decide whether to cycle it for a land now or save the mana to hard-cast the 6/3 Beast later.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Valley Rannet
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn’t have to be a basic land.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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