Greener Pastures

The reward here is pointed at exactly the player who least needs help: whoever already controls the most lands gets a free body on their own upkeep, compounding a board lead into a wider one. That makes this a deliberately lopsided design, an enchantment that pays the leader for staying ahead rather than letting the trailing player claw back. The upkeep check is the structural hinge: it re-evaluates land counts at the start of each player's turn, so the token only lands while you're strictly ahead, and a single land falling behind (or an opponent catching up) shuts the spigot off until the gap reopens. It rewards a ramp deck that wants to flood the board anyway, turning surplus lands into a slow stream of Saprolings, but the same clause makes it dead weight in a mirror of land-rich decks where nobody pulls clear. The Saproling tribe gives it a home: the tokens feed the era's pump effects and sacrifice payoffs that cared about green's expendable swarm. As a piece of green's "lands matter" identity, it's an early, honest expression of the color's thesis (more lands should mean more board presence) without the safety valve later designs added to keep the symmetry from running away from the table.