Hole fixing I chose 'colorless mana fixer' and random generator gave me Gifts Ungiven. I panicked a bit when I saw that I needed to translate Gifts Ungiven into a common, but it occured to me that the simplest form of this card hadn't really been done yet. Worse than Lay the Land in decks focused on green, but pretty good in 3+ color decks otherwise. I'll take it.

Oh, the name Land Grant has been taken, on a card that has nothing to do with deeds and titles, and doesn't use a double entendre. How unfortunate. Changed name.

This is a nice simple common, but remarkably interesting. It's a colourless Lay of the Land, but somewhat unreliable. In a 5-colour deck it's great before a Kodama's Reach, but awful after it: "I bin the colour you don't have yet". I could even see two-colour decks splashing one basic land of a third colour as a mind game to make this card work to fetch the colour you're missing.

Clearly jmgariepy is hoarding snow-covered lands and is just offering this card idea because it would drive up demand on those lands and allow him to cash out for a boatload of money.

Hah! Yes, good point, this is absolutely perfectly suited to a deck with a 50/50 split between snow and nonsnow basics!

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This reminds me somewhat of Realms Uncharted.

Mashing up "mana fixer" with Gifts Ungiven is pretty likely to do that. I'd guess it's just the constraints of "common" that means this has the word "basic" on there.