Cycling

Cycling is an informal game term. To cycle cards is to discard cards to draw more, as with Ottar, Man of Laketown (1R80) .

"Cycling" can also mean intentionally discarding cards (with a card like Gwemegil (1R47) ) in order to draw more the next time you reconcile in the Regroup Phase.

"Cycle" can also refer to a broad strategy of efficiently playing or discarding as many cards as you can, in order to draw your deck quickly. Moria is often considered a cycling Shadow culture, because it plays many cheap minions and conditions, and replays Goblin Scimitar (1C180) to draw many extra cards on top of that over the course of a game. If one side of your deck cycles well, it benefits the other side, too, because it means you can more quickly find key cards in your deck before they are needed.

Cycle is the opposite of, and solution to, clog.