­Creeping Mold + Avyrine Eclipse

Huh, I always forget about this one. It's only a discount of 2 to not be able to hit creatures. I'd much prefer the discount to not be able to hit lands, usually. Surprised this survived all the way to 10th. Anyway; sorcery "Blow something up" in green, and ... a rare blue black flyer that forces instant speed discard (though with a 'you can get them back' catch)

Ok, green doesn't usually do card discard - but then, it doesn't usually do destruction outside of Naturalise either (and that's properly white, dammit, it's supposed to be Crumble that green gets, and that only in an expansion pack. Ok, I'm grumbling for the sake of it now.)

But "Stuff dies, stuff is reborn" is very green, and so we can, maybe, apply the catch to make a Desert Twister variant that's cheap enough to cast.

and in attempting to find a nice wording (that didn't end up as a blue or white card) I end up with... this. You wouldn't think Avyrine Eclipse was a source unless I told you, would you? I guess I took the P/T...

­Creeping Mold is still within green's pie. More recent versions are Rootgrapple and Bramblecrush.

OTOH, Desert Twister, um, ain't.

Yeah, and it never really was. Hence the ridunkulous casting cost. I'm surprised green is being allowed land destruction, after they stomped on it so hard. But ok, it gets the land creation, so it fits.

Does this work as a "green only sorta gets removal" though? Without feeling too much like Paralyse or Oblivion ring?

Green and black both do get land destruction, just always at 4 mana. Reap and Sow is one that springs to mind, but there are others.

This is a clever take on "semi-removal". "Remains tapped" can be in blue or white normally, but green does occasionally get it: Matsu-Tribe Sniper, Entangling Vines, following in the tradition of Roots.

But the mana-taxing ability is only really white these days. It used to be blue (Propaganda), but there days it's just white: Ghostly Prison, Thalia, Suppression Field, Chancellor of the Annex, Soul Tithe, and many more.

Green did get it in Hum of the Radix, but that's only because green hates artifacts so much. I guess it could get the same for something else it really hates, like flyers.

"Stuff dies, stuff is reborn" is indeed very green; but I don't look at this card's rules text and think "ah, stuff is dying and being reborn".

Yeah. It kinda went sideways on me. Initial attempt sent to graveyard and retrieved from there to hand; which worked but was ugly. May give it another go; probably won't.

Actually, maybe I will.

When ~ ETBs, destroy target permanent. When ~ LTBs, the owner of that permanent may return a card of the same or lower casting cost as that permanent to play.

... Words words words. And memory problems. (Added the casting cost to stop this being an obvious way to turn a thopter into an eldrazi) Yeuch.

Are you just looking for Fiend Hunter or Body Snatcher?