Gateway Plaza

The five-color land that charges rent. Most any-color fixing either costs nothing and enters tapped (the painless taplands) or asks for life on entry. This one splits the difference with a stranger tax: it comes in tapped, then demands one generic mana on the way down or it dies on the spot. The result is a land that effectively reads as costing one mana the turn you play it, with the acting less like a fee than a tempo hostage. The Gate type is the load-bearing part of the design, not the fixing: this exists to be a body for the Gates-matter payoffs that count how many you control and trigger off their entry, where a land that produces every color and carries the right subtype is worth more than its mana ability suggests. Stripped of that synergy, it is among the slowest fixing in the game, a tapland that can be taxed out of your hand if you stumble on the generic mana. The friction is deliberate: it gives you all five colors at common rarity without ever feeling free, because the entry tax punishes the greedy curve and the tapped clause punishes the fast one. As fixing it asks you to want the Gate, not just the color.