Oracle of Mul Daya

Extra-land effects had existed for years before this, but they always asked you to discard a card or sacrifice tempo for the privilege. Here the second land per turn comes with a deck-thinning value engine bolted on: revealing the top card turns every land drop into card advantage, and the permission to play lands from the top means your library's mana sources feed directly into your extra drop without ever touching your hand. The three abilities are not three separate gifts; they compound. The reveal tells you whether your top card is a land you can play this turn, the extra-land clause lets you cash both your hand and your library for ground, and a deck built to land more lands per turn empties its top of basics fast enough to start showing real spells. That self-reinforcement is what made this a ramp staple rather than a fringe value creature: it does not just accelerate mana, it accelerates the quality of your draws by clearing dead cards off the top. The 2/2 body is the honest cost. It dies to almost everything and offers no protection, so the engine only runs as long as the table lets a four-mana Elf sit unmolested. The tension the design lives inside is exactly that: an engine powerful enough to be worth a removal spell, attached to a creature fragile enough that the removal spell is rarely a hard choice.