Rhonas's Last Stand
The price here is paid in time, not cards. A 5/4 for two mana is a rate that would never survive at the bottom of a curve; what buys it back is a mortgaged next turn, with your lands frozen and unavailable when you next go to untap. The turn after casting this you operate on whatever mana you held in reserve or whatever lands you draw fresh, which inverts the usual math for cheap fatties: most of them either ask you to play from behind on mana or come stapled to a self-sacrifice clause, while this one shoves the entire cost forward onto the following turn. The design intent is an aggressive opener, a body that hits as hard as a five-drop but arrives early enough to demand a removal answer while the rest of your hand is still developing. The lock functions as a self-imposed tempo tax, not a drawback the opponent can pressure or exploit. The wrinkle sits in the wording: the penalty pins lands specifically, not all permanents, so anything that untaps lands outside the normal untap step, or any line that simply spends nothing the following turn, walks around the cost entirely. This is a threat for a deck that empties its hand on cast and then swings with a creature the opponent has to solve before it can afford to think about anything else.
