Gavony Township

The colorless mana marks this as a manland's poorer, sturdier cousin: it never becomes a creature, never dies to removal, never costs you a card to deploy. It just sits in the manabase as an Island-grade tapper until the game stalls, then converts excess lands into a board-wide pump that no sweeper can preempt. The four-mana activation is the price for that immunity, and the design logic is built around the word "each": a single activation scales with the width of your board, so the more a token deck or go-wide creature plan develops, the more lethal one tap becomes. That puts it in a small class of lands whose late-game ceiling is open-ended rather than incremental, a permanent that punishes opponents for letting a game grind without ever asking you to commit anything more than a land slot. Where a one-shot anthem trades a card to swing a single combat, this one keeps stacking counters turn after turn, and the counters stay even after the township itself is destroyed. The friction is real: it does nothing on the turns you need to be developing, and the green-white commitment narrows the decks that can run it. But for an attrition-minded creature deck, it answers a problem that anthems and finishers solve more expensively, turning a mana sink into a board state no amount of spot removal can fully unwind.