Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi

Instant-speed is the entire pitch. Turning a land into a creature is old technology, going back to Living Lands and the classic manland cycles, but those either arrive tapped, cost mana to animate, or leave a modest body behind. Nine counters at once, on your own turn or your opponent's, produces a 9/9 with haste that swings immediately or ambushes an attacker that thought the board was clear. The land clause is what keeps the effect honest and lethal at the same time: because it is still a land, a board wipe that scoops your creatures costs you the mana source too, but the haste means the counter package rarely needs to survive more than one combat step to matter. It is a burst finisher wearing a permanent's clothes, a two-card threat compressed into one instant that answers the perennial green problem of closing a game the turn the door opens. The naming to Vitu-Ghazi and the Elemental type is flavor scaffolding; the legendary supertype is the only real cost, and it almost never bites, since you are unlikely to want two of these animated at once anyway. What you are buying at five mana is the right to end a race at the moment of your choosing, from a resource your opponent has no reason to be holding removal for.