Hmm, the Shifting Borders you mention is obviously also but Kamigawa as a whole is notorious for its low power level. Since we don't prolly want to one-up Political Trickery, and this has basic landcycling, it would seem reasonable to me to make it cost . This would make it less bad competitively afaik, while not being strictly better Trickery, and also highlight the fact that it does indeed have a basic landcycling option that would be especially reasonable to use if you at the moment weren't able to produce the now required double for the base card.
I consider basic landcycling an especially potent cycling variant, which is why I kept the increase in mana value, but I find your reasoning compelling.
The issue with the effect is that it is a rather equal exchange in quantity and the most common lands are pretty interchangeable, so the effect could be cheap - except sometimes you can color screw an opponent, which puts this with the worst use of land destruction.
Shifting Borders is clever in pairing the high cost with a re-usability mechanic. Maybe cipher would have been the better call.
Apparently Shifting Borders exists. Also Political Trickery.
So let's add basic landcycling and
to the mana cost. Happy to have intuited an appropriate cost.
Seems solid. Less useful now that landwalk is not really a thing, so it's not so much of a "Sea serpent to the face" enabler; but solid.
Hmm, the Shifting Borders you mention is obviously also
but Kamigawa as a whole is notorious for its low power level. Since we don't prolly want to one-up Political Trickery, and this has basic landcycling, it would seem reasonable to me to make it cost 
. This would make it less bad competitively afaik, while not being strictly better Trickery, and also highlight the fact that it does indeed have a basic landcycling option that would be especially reasonable to use if you at the moment weren't able to produce the now required double 
for the base card.
I consider basic landcycling an especially potent cycling variant, which is why I kept the increase in mana value, but I find your reasoning compelling.
I also notice now that Shifting Borders is an instant.
The issue with the effect is that it is a rather equal exchange in quantity and the most common lands are pretty interchangeable, so the effect could be cheap - except sometimes you can color screw an opponent, which puts this with the worst use of land destruction.
Shifting Borders is clever in pairing the high cost with a re-usability mechanic. Maybe cipher would have been the better call.
Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2024-06-25.