Rooting Moloch

four generic mana one red mana Creature — LizardPower and toughness4/4

When this creature enters, exile target card with a cycling ability from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.

Cycling two generic mana (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Their feeding habits leave them with gizzards full of tumbled gems.

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Rooting Moloch rulings

2020-04-17
Rooting Moloch gives you permission to play the card as a land or cast it as a spell. You can’t cycle the exiled card.
2020-04-17
You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the exiled card. If it’s a land, you can’t play it unless you have land plays available.
2020-04-17
You’ll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.
2020-04-17
If you don’t play the exiled card, it remains exiled.

Rooting Moloch keyword rules

Cycling Rule 702.29

Cycling is an activated ability that functions only while the card with cycling is in a player’s hand. “Cycling [cost]” means “[Cost], Discard this card: Draw a card.”

Although the cycling ability can be activated only if the card is in a player’s hand, it continues to exist while the object is on the battlefield and in all other zones. Therefore objects with cycling will be affected by effects that depend on objects having one or more activated abilities.

Some cards with cycling have abilities that trigger when they’re cycled. “When you cycle this card” means “When you discard this card to pay an activation cost of a cycling ability.” These abilities trigger from whatever zone the card winds up in after it’s cycled.

Some cards have abilities that trigger whenever a player “cycles or discards” a card. These abilities trigger only once when a card is cycled.

Typecycling is a variant of the cycling ability. “[Type]cycling [cost]” means “[Cost], Discard this card: Search your library for a [type] card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.” This type is usually a subtype (as in “mountaincycling”) but can be any card type, subtype, supertype, or combination thereof (as in “basic landcycling”).

Typecycling abilities are cycling abilities, and typecycling costs are cycling costs. Any cards that trigger when a player cycles a card will trigger when a card is discarded to pay an activation cost of a typecycling ability. Any effect that stops players from cycling cards will stop players from activating cards’ typecycling abilities. Any effect that increases or reduces a cycling cost will increase or reduce a typecycling cost. Any effect that looks for a card with cycling will find a card with typecycling.