Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

Most token-making lands charge a steep entry tax or pay out once; this one quietly adds colorless mana from turn one and only asks for the Selesnya investment after the board can spare it. That separation defines how the card plays. Early, it sits in the manabase as a painless colorless source whose only drawback is the color it cannot make; late, when the game stalls and excess mana has nowhere productive to go, it converts that surplus into a steady drip of bodies. The Saprolings are individually trivial, but a token engine that lives in the land slot survives every sweeper and refuels the turn after one resolves, so it generates board presence that a removal suite has no clean way to pre-empt. It is slow-game insurance a controlling green-white deck buys without spending a card on it: a land you are glad to draw on the back half of the game rather than one you groan at. Five mana including a green and a white pip for a single 1/1 is a price no one would pay on a sorcery, but folded into a land that is also an untapped colorless source, the inefficiency reads as patience instead of waste. You only ever pay it with mana you would otherwise have left floating, which is precisely what keeps the rate fair.