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CardName: Gesh-Odt's Leaf Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}- put a -1/-1 counter on all creatures you control: Add {B}{G} to your mana pool. Activate Gesh-Odt's Leaf only if you control at least one creature. Flavour Text: Even after his passing Nantuko, still visit Gesh-Odt's leaf despite it many traps, seeking to be enlightened in his trickery to enhance their own. Set/Rarity: Jyhelm Flourishing Uncommon |
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- put a -1/-1 counter on all creatures you control: Add 
to your mana pool. Activate Gesh-Odt's Leaf only if you control at least one creature.
Way too strong. Even if it was
and sacrifice a creature, that'd be a legendary rare land (Phyrexian Tower). At common this is absurd.
Also, it should say "a creature" not "target creature" because you can't have targets in costs (the part before the colon on an activated ability).
That's a bit nicer. Unfortunately now it has the loophole that you can activate it even if you have zero creatures out. It'd need something ugly like "Activate this ability only if you control a creature" adding on the end to prevent that. There ought to be a nicer way to phrase that, but I don't think there is.
Why not include the counter as part of the cost?
I think the counter is included as part of the cost. It's before the colon. It's just there's a - rather than a comma.
I see. Somehow I misinterpreted it.