Scholar of New Horizons

Land-fetching in white can pull a Plains straight from your library, but it is usually bounded by parity clauses that only reward the player who is behind. This one folds both instincts into a single small body: the entering counter is not stats padding, it is fuel, the first charge in a fetch engine that eats counters wherever they sit on your side of the board. That routing detail is what makes the design more than a Plains-only Land Tax variant. Because the ability drains a counter from any permanent you control, it can cannibalize a planeswalker's loyalty, a saga's chapter, or a creature that has done its job, turning stray counters into fixing on demand. The catch-up clause does the balancing work: put the Plains straight onto the battlefield only when an opponent runs more lands than you, otherwise it lands in hand as an ordinary tutor. That gate keeps the ramp honest without punishing the fetch-to-hand mode, so the card stays useful whether you are behind or even. The body itself is disposable, a 1/1 base wearing its own counter, but the tap ability is repeatable so long as you keep feeding it counters, which quietly makes counter-generation a support axis rather than a bonus. It is a fixing piece built for decks that already traffic in +1/+1 counters and want their overflow to buy something back.