­Norwood Archers + Windscour

What does a giant elf spider have in common with bouncing lands?

Can I give a land reach?

Humm, Animate Land was already printed, with exactly those stats. But it's hardly a power-house; I reckon we can up-power it. The name Upheaval would be perfect, but.

Can I omit "Is still a land" this way? No, because what happens if I turn it into a 1/1 with something else; and 'also a 3/3' with this. Probably simplest to remove the 'is still a land' completely. And that would make it mana denial too; except then I'd have to go faster than mana-speed or make it drain the mana pool or something. Bleghhh.

Ok, howsabout making it an enchantment - that's depriving the land for later turns; which is almost removal - but in trade they get a spidoo. (And make it only kill basics because... hmmm. Well, because green isn't very GOOD at complex stuff; and because it nicely takes care of not needing to get rid of the printed abilities unless they're running really old lands.

Proooobably don't want to cost this at 1 any more, it's just too nasty to an early ramp. Same reasoning for 2, which makes this cost a really ugly three - but that IS still a discount on the archers; so you might sometimes want to use this on your own land.

Unfortunately, if you remove "it's still a land," the aura falls off because it can't enchant the creature the permanent it's enchanting has become.

Oh foo.

That's annoying and dumb. Fixing it in reminder text.

Alex? Why is "This effect..." italicised? The 'no longer a land' is closed.

Urgle. Because my paren-matching regexp is broken. (It's greedy when it should be frugal.)