Ior Ruin Expedition

Two mana up front, two cards drawn three land drops later: this is card advantage on layaway, sold to decks willing to spread the cost across turns they were already going to make a land drop. The quest-counter shell is the trick. Rather than gating the payoff behind a sorcery-speed click or a tapped body, it banks progress passively, charging a counter each time a land enters and letting the controller cash out the moment the third arrives. The sacrifice is the only hard cost, the same price an enchantment like Phyrexian Arena pays for its draws: refueling that asks for incremental investment rather than mana on the turn the cards are wanted. The redemption window is what raises it above a flat Divination. Because removing the counters and sacrificing is an activated ability, it can be held until the end of an opponent's turn, smoothing the tempo hit so the two cards don't cost a turn of development. The friction is patience: the enchantment sits inert until its counters fill, and the payoff hinges on hitting land drops on schedule, so a deck that stumbles on lands also stalls the draw. It suits a deck built to develop its mana on curve and treat the cards as a delayed dividend, not one that needs to dig for answers now; the more reliably the lands come down, the better the prepayment looks.