The Shire

A green source that arrives ready only when you already field a legendary creature: that board-state check is how the card pays for entering untapped. Untapped lands are cheap to abuse and expensive to gate, so instead of a cycling clause or a life payment, the toll is a condition the deck either meets on curve or ignores entirely. It gives nothing to a shell that just wants a painless green source; it rewards the exact builds anchored on a marquee legend. The Food ability is the more distinctive design, and its price is heavier than it reads: , tapping The Shire itself, and tapping an untapped creature you control, all to bank a single Food. The creature is not consumed, only tapped, so the tempo hit is real (you spend the land, real mana, and a blocker or an attacker's next swing), but it converts idle bodies (mana dorks, untapped attackers) into a slow lifegain-and-sacrifice engine at instant speed. The payoff is only ever as good as your Food payoffs are, which makes this a narrow ask for a card that produces one green mana: it wants both a resident legendary creature and a preexisting interest in what Food enables. The supertype comes from the location itself, a named place in the lore rather than any clause on the card. The flavor carries what the rate cannot: a homeland that feeds you, sustaining a hobbit's larder one meal at a time.