Ranger's Path

A Rampant Growth that fetches two lands instead of one, paid back in tempo: the spell costs four mana where its two-mana ancestor cost two, and the lands arrive tapped, so you set up next turn's haymaker rather than slamming it this turn. What that buys is a genuine two-mana jump, the ramp deck's cleanest way to go from four lands to six in a single cast. The tapped clause is what keeps the curve honest; you bank the mana for the turn after, not the turn of. The real subtlety is the target line: it reads "Forest cards," not "basic Forest," which means dual-typed lands carrying the Forest subtype are fair game alongside basics. A green-heavy manabase can use this to grab a Forest-typed shockland or triome and stay tapped anyway, fixing colors and ramping in the same cast rather than choosing between them. That flexibility quietly widens the spell past its plain-vanilla cousins: it doubles as deck-thinning, pulling two cards out of the library so later draws skew toward business. It sits in green's long ramp-into-bombs tradition, the connective tissue between an early mana accelerant and the threat the deck is actually built to resolve. Unspectacular by design, and that is the role: it does its work two or three turns before the game tips, and the decision it forces is which two Forest-typed lands your deck can most afford to commit to the battlefield, tapped, right now.