Loot, Exuberant Explorer

The extra land drop is the honest half of the card: a familiar green staple folded onto a durable 1/4 body that survives the early turns it wants to accelerate through. The activated ability is where the design gets specific. The mana value ceiling on what you can dig out scales with your lands, so the ramp half literally raises the ceiling on the cheat half: play more lands, and the six-card dig can pull progressively larger creatures straight onto the battlefield. That coupling is the whole point. Most creature-cheat effects fix their target's size at printing (a hard cap of five, a hard cap of six); here the cap is a variable you grow yourself, which turns the extra land drop from generic acceleration into a self-reinforcing enabler. The cost is deliberately steep: six mana and a tap to fire it, so it is an engine you build toward across a game rather than a burst you spike on curve. Because the ability needs no additional timing restriction beyond the tap, it fires at instant speed once summoning sickness is gone, which lets you ambush-develop a blocker on an opponent's end step or flash in a creature with a relevant entrance effect at the right window. What you get for the investment is repeatability: every activation sends the misses to the bottom in random order, keeping the library churning rather than exhausting it. The payoff being creature-cheating tied to land count, rather than raw mana, is the wrinkle that gives this green ramp legend its own axis.