Sunscorched Divide

The tradeoff is baked into the tap: this fixes for two colors, but every activation costs a generic mana on top of the tap, so it never enters or fixes for free. That extra pip is the tax that pays for a land coming in untapped in exchange for slower mana output, a design that trades tempo on the front end for tempo on the back. The lineage runs back to the "filter lands" of an earlier era, the cards that took one mana and returned two of specified colors, though those asked for a colored payment rather than a generic one. Here the input is any single mana, which makes it slightly more forgiving to slot into a deck light on early sources but no faster to deploy: you still need something to feed it before it produces anything useful. It is fixing for a two-color pairing that wants its lands untapped and can afford to sink a mana into filtering rather than paying it into the board, a narrow but real niche wherever the alternative is a tapland or a painland that chips away at your life. Plain, functional, and honest about what it costs you.