Gift of Estates

A catch-up engine gated by a fairness clause: it only fires when an opponent controls more lands than you, and that conditional is what keeps a three-card grab honest. Card advantage that comes free of cost is dangerous, so the condition turns a potential blowout into a rubber-band. The player getting run over by ramp or a faster start gets to refill; the player ahead gets nothing. It comes from Portal, the beginner-focused product where most cards traded power for simplicity, and the conditional reads like a guardrail meant to keep the three-card grab from going off in the wrong direction. The wording is precise, too: it cares about an opponent controlling more lands, not more permanents, so a flood of tokens or artifacts does not switch it on. The grab does double duty, putting three Plains in hand exactly when you are starved for them and leaving a leaner deck afterward, so the refill carries a small thinning bonus rather than a downside. The result is a spell that is dead when you are ahead and exactly what you want when you are behind: a self-correcting design that rewards a deck built to fall behind early and stabilize.