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CardName: Land from Xanthium Cost: 1G Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Search your library for a Plains or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. If you control a white permanent, you gain 2 life. Flavour Text: In an effort to placate their Trivian governors, many of the Xanthian tribes conceded large swaths of territory to the legions. Set/Rarity: Trivium Common
Land from Xanthium
  Search your library for a Plains or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. If you control a white permanent, you gain 2 life.
In an effort to placate their Trivian governors, many of the Xanthian tribes conceded large swaths of territory to the legions.
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Basically Map the Wastes. Might need to do a pass-over eventually and make sure the power level is correct.
I would personally consider removing the "white" restriction, making it an instant, and having the land enter tapped.
Taking some of your advice to make the design feel a little more cohesive. (Note: Not require a target.)
For the "require a target" issue you could have it say "up to one target creature". That's the one wording I would generally hope to supersede the current "you may have target" phrase since that specifically still requires a target even though intuitively you would think it wouldn't.
In any case, the current variation does indeed look more cohesive. I get the white theme with the requirement, but gaining life isn't that more white than it's green. Maybe something like...
> "Then if you control a Plains and a Forest, you gain 2 life"
... to wrap the whole thing together.
Also, I would mayhaps pump the lifegain to 3.
Green can only gain life based on creatures. That's solidly white's contribution here.
I am okay with the white bonus being something White and Green both get - I'll use this version for testing but since its a hole filler common I will see what G/W needs after I get started on the Set Skeleton after this extended vacation of mine.
@dude1818 - There are plenty of Green cards that gain life on their own, or at least outside of creatures. See Bountiful Harvest (based off lands), Appetite for the Unnatural, Feed the Clans (which gets better if you control a big guy), Dosan's Oldest Chant, and Herald of the Pantheon. It has a form of lifegain that keys off of creatures, but so does white in its access to lifelink. I don't think there is a very fine line in the sand that says "Green/White can only do this to gain life".