another cycling question

[Juggernaut GO]

when you cycle a card and say you have a triggered effect that hits when you cycle, can you draw the card first then decide  to activate the triggered ability.   Or is drawing the card the first thing that always goes on the stack when you activate a cycle.  Or, since you are active player, do you determine what order your effects go on the stack ?  So, it would look something like this:

1: declare cycle
2: activate lightning rift on something
3: draw card

or would it have to go like this

1:declare cycle
2:draw card
3:activate any triggered abilities

[Jebus]

Cycling triggers will always resolve before the card draw.  There's no way to change that.

[Godder]

When you announce cycling, you pay the costs (mana costs and any non-mana costs e.g. discarding the card being cycled) and then put the ability on the stack i.e. draw a card. Once it's on the stack, triggered abilities e.g. Lightning Rift may be placed on the stack, but they will always be above the cycling ability itself i.e. draw a card.

Note, incidentally, that the trigger for Lightning Rift doesn't require the mana payment or targets to be named until the resolution of the ability, so once it starts resolving, it's too late for anyone to take action such as gaining life or putting up regeneration shields.

[Jebus]

Note, incidentally, that the trigger for Lightning Rift doesn't require the mana payment or targets to be named until the resolution of the ability, so once it starts resolving, it's too late for anyone to take action such as gaining life or putting up regeneration shields.

While you don't pay mana until it resolves, you pick the target as soon as it triggers, just like anything else.

[Godder]

Oops, my mistake!