Kishla Village

The conditional untapped clause is the compromise that defines this land: it makes only green, yet it enters ready to use only if you already control an Island or a Swamp. That is a deliberate mismatch, gating a green source behind two colors it will never produce, and it marks the card as one node in a cycle of dual-adjacent lands that reward committing to a specific color pair by shaving the tempo cost of entering tapped. The surveil activation is the second job, and it is priced to matter late rather than early: four mana per use makes it no turn-one play but a mana sink for the flooded midgame, filtering draws and stocking a graveyard when your lands have nothing better to do. Mono-color lands that tap for one thing and bolt on a repeatable late-game ability have been a steady design line for years, and the surveil rider is a modern take on that idea, trading raw card advantage for selection and graveyard setup. The tension every such land negotiates is how much value can be stapled to a land before the tempo it costs stops being worth paying. The answer here is modest by design: a conditional tap that punishes off-color builds, and a filter expensive enough to stay a sideline activity rather than a plan. Small enough to keep the land honest, real enough to earn the slot.