Clifftop Lookout
Land ramp with a body attached usually means paying full price for the creature and treating the land as a bonus, but the reveal-and-put-into-play template here is the older and more reliable half of the deal. Most green ramp that puts a land onto the battlefield asks you to pay a premium for consistency: this one digs blindly through the top of the library until it hits any land, guaranteeing a fixed drop even out of an empty hand, at the cost of not choosing which land you find or getting the card back into hand. The tapped land keeps it honest, so the effect accelerates toward next turn rather than the current one. What sets the design apart from a straight ramp spell is that the ramp is bolted to a creature that survives after it does its job: Reach on a 1/2 gives it a defensive role once the acceleration is spent, blocking fliers while the mana it fetched goes to work. That combination (an enters-the-battlefield ramp trigger stapled to a body that still matters in combat) turns a piece of fixing into something that can be flickered, reanimated, or simply left on the board as a wall. The randomization clause on the bottomed cards keeps the deck from being sculpted too cleanly, but for a creature whose whole point is smoothing your land drops, that is a fair tax.
