Murasa Ranger

Landfall here reads less like a trigger than a checkpoint: every land you play opens a window to sink into a creature already sitting on the board, buying two +1/+1 counters at a time. The economics are severe as a tempo play. Four mana buys the 3/3 body, and each growth spurt costs four more, layered onto a creature that offers no immediate return. What it offers instead is permanence and repetition: the trigger fires once per land, so a turn stuffed with extra land drops and floating mana can stack counter after counter, hoisting this well past burn range and letting it trade up in combat indefinitely. The ceiling is set not by your mana but by your land velocity. This is a triggered ability keyed to lands entering, not an activated ability you can crank on demand, so its scaling is bounded by how quickly you can put lands into play with the spare standing ready behind each one. That is the tension the design leans on. The lands you want for their own sake compete with the mana left over to feed the engine; every fetch, every Explore effect, every additional drop only becomes a pump if the payment is already there. It rewards a board already tilted toward surplus rather than one still trying to develop: a payoff for a build drowning in lands, not a card that generates the excess itself.