Cards And Zones
How Does Recycling Work?
Return Main Deck cards and runes to the bottoms of their owners' corresponding decks.
RiftPal explanation · Answer first
The short answer
RecycleRecycle means returning a card to the bottom of the appropriate deck. When you Recycle a rune, it returns to your Rune Deck.View in Glossary puts a card on the bottom of its owner's corresponding deck. A Main DeckThe deck of units, gear and spells, separate from your Rune Deck. Your deckbuilding list has at least 40 cards including your Chosen Champion; that chosen copy starts in the Champion Zone instead of the shuffled pile.View in Glossary card returns to that owner's Main Deck. A rune returns to that owner's Rune DeckYour separate deck of exactly 12 runes. Shuffle it separately from your Main Deck. Channeling takes runes from this deck and puts them on the board.View in Glossary , even if another player controlled it or performed the action.
RiftPal explanation
How it works
If two or more Main DeckThe deck of units, gear and spells, separate from your Rune Deck. Your deckbuilding list has at least 40 cards including your Chosen Champion; that chosen copy starts in the Champion Zone instead of the shuffled pile.View in Glossary cards are recycled at the same time, put them on the bottom in a random order. If two or more runes are recycled at the same time, their owner chooses their order on the bottom of the Rune DeckYour separate deck of exactly 12 runes. Shuffle it separately from your Main Deck. Channeling takes runes from this deck and puts them on the board.View in Glossary .
Card reference
Garbage Grabber
A RecycleRecycle means returning a card to the bottom of the appropriate deck. When you Recycle a rune, it returns to your Rune Deck.View in Glossary cost must be completed in full. If Recycle is part of an effect, recycle as many of the instructed cards as possible. When the instruction says "Recycle X from" a zone, the player performing it chooses the cards; that instruction does not target them.
Gear
Garbage Grabber
Recycle 3 from your trash, [Energy 1], [Exhaust]: Draw 1.
In practice
Example
If an effect recycles two Main Deck cards from your TrashA player's off-board zone for cards that are killed or discarded and spells that finish resolving, unless an effect changes their destination. Its cards are public information and their order does not matter.View in Glossary at once, randomize their order on the bottom of your Main Deck. If an effect recycles two runes at once, their owner chooses their order on the bottom of the Rune Deck.