Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker

Energy has always been a closed loop: a counter you bank from specific enablers and spend on specific payoffs, all within the same set's carefully rationed supply. This design cracks that loop open. It turns every land drop into a two-energy dividend, and then it repurposes that stockpile into a universal casting discount, an eight-energy tax you can pay in place of any permanent's mana cost. The consequence is that energy stops being a niche subtheme and becomes a parallel resource economy grafted onto the most reliable trigger in green: playing lands. Two energy per landfall is slow arithmetic on its own, but the payoff scales without ceiling. A single extra-land effect or a fetch-heavy turn doubles the intake, and eight energy is not a hard number when each land is worth a quarter of it. What balances the ceiling is the metering: the discount only applies to permanent spells, so instants and sorceries still cost mana, and the body is a modest 3/3 that invites removal before the bank fills. The real strategic axis is the conversion rate between lands and free permanents, a question green has rarely had to answer because green's ramp has always paid out in mana, not in a second currency. This reframes energy from a per-set experiment into a landfall engine's fuel, and the design space that opens is wider than the countertop rate suggests.