Gather the White Lotus

The five-mana price tag is the tax you pay for a token count that scales with your board's least ambitious permanent. Where most white go-wide payoffs hand you a fixed number of bodies or a per-turn engine, this one converts your Plains directly into 1/1 Allies, which quietly ties its ceiling to how mono-white you were willing to build. A deck running a spread of nonbasics gets a modest handful of tokens; a deck committed to a heavy Plains base gets a swarm that arrives all at once, at sorcery speed, with the whole army landing in a single main-phase beat. The scry 2 rider is the piece that keeps the card honest on the turns your land count underdelivers: even a thin token yield comes with library selection, so the spell rarely feels dead when your Plains total is low. That tension between wanting a fat token payload and wanting a diverse, flexible manabase is the real decision the card poses, and it is a decision made in deckbuilding long before the spell resolves. The Ally creature type gives it a tribal home to slot into, though the body-per-Plains framing is doing the structural work: this is a mass-production spell dressed as a flavor payoff, and the more monochromatic the shell, the harder it hits.