Nesting Grounds

Counters are usually stapled to the permanent that made them: a +1/+1 counter lives on the creature it grew, a loyalty counter on its planeswalker, a charge counter on the artifact that stored it. This land severs the counter from its origin, something the color pie almost never grants. For a mana and a tap, at sorcery speed, it lifts a counter off one permanent and drops it onto another, and it does not care what kind: +1/+1, loyalty, charge, oil, feather, indestructibility, whatever happens to be sitting there. Because it lives on a colorless land, no color identity locks it out, and it asks for nothing but a land slot to earn its place. The sorcery-speed clause is the tax on all of this, denying it the instant-speed rescue that would turn it into a counterspell against counter-based removal. What remains is still substantial: consolidating +1/+1 counters onto a single evasive threat, feeding loyalty to a planeswalker you actually want to ultimate, ferrying a counter off a permanent about to die. A utility land that quietly wants a deck constructed around it, and it taps for colorless whenever nothing better presents itself.