Path to the Festival
Ramp with a scry rider that only pays out once your manabase is already greedy enough to earn it. The base line is the familiar green tempo trade: you find a basic and put it into play, but it arrives tapped, so the acceleration is deferred a turn rather than immediate. The single conditional clause turns a plain ramp spell into something sharper: the scry fires only when you already control three or more basic land types, a threshold that quietly taxes the card toward three-plus-color builds. That is not incidental. A single fetched basic can flip a two-type board over the line and convert ramp into ramp-plus-smoothing, while boards short of three basic land types get the acceleration and none of the payoff. The flashback tail is what earns the slot over cheaper alternatives: a raw two-mana ramp spell sits dead in hand by the midgame, but this one can be recast from the graveyard for a second land at a point when fixing still matters. The trade for all of it is a body-less sorcery that exerts no board presence at all; every mana it spends buys future mana and future card selection, never immediate pressure. It rewards the greedy manabase precisely, and only, once you have committed to the greed.

