Created for Challenge # 024. Using the same approach as on Jenny, Marquisa of Catan - one of the very first home-made Magic cards I made, many years ago - I decided a "victory point" should correspond to "opponents lose 1 life". I decided to tweak that to "and you gain that much life" to make the card a bit more appealing.

How to represent "longest road" was an interesting question (much harder than Largest Army, which I'm sure was deliberate on jmgariepy's part). At first I thought "most lands", but I thought that might correspond to "most roads", which is not the same as "longest road". In the end I went for the slightly more unusual "most differently-named lands" to evoke the feel of a road stretching out across lots of different bits of territory, rather than having lots of little forks within one piece of territory.

I like the "differently-named" lands. I went the obvious route, but I think yours is more interesting. There's a little excuse to play as eccentric a mana base as possible (a little hard on monocolor decks, but that's probably ok).

I chose "20% of starting value" as the key number, but only had it happen once: I agree "every turn" gives a good reason for the change of control to matter. I'm not sure if I like the life gain or not: it can really draw games out, but OTOH, it works nicely with the concept of the longest road, in that if I have it for a turn, then you gain control for a turn, it cancels out, which sort of makes sense settlers-wise, rather than just driving everyone inexorably towards death.

Very solid card. For a second, I almost thought of this as being the natural conclusion for "Longest Road", when I had to check myself, and realize that this required a few leaps, and just looks natural since it comes together so well.