Flare of Cultivation
Green's Flare pays its cost in creatures, and this entry converts that trade into acceleration. Sacrifice a nontoken green creature (a dork that already tapped for mana, a spent early body, anything the board no longer needs) and the ramp becomes effectively free: a permanent you were done with turns into a land in play and a land in hand. That is the wrinkle worth sitting with. Traditional ramp spends a card and mana to fetch lands; here the mana cost can be zero, and the card you spend is one that has usually already done its job. The nontoken clause is the restriction paying the bill, since it locks out the obvious abuse of chaining token generators into a sacrifice engine and keeps the tension between board presence and mana development real. Fetching two basics and splitting them (one tapped onto the battlefield, one into hand) also means the spell smooths a second land drop rather than exploding your mana in a single turn, a gentler curve than a raw double-ramp effect. The alternative-cost line is why it reads differently from a Rampant Growth variant: it folds a sacrifice outlet's payoff into a ramp slot for any deck already stocked with expendable green bodies, without asking that deck to run one.
