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CardName: Nat. Ural Selection Cost: 2G Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: When Nat. Ural Selection enters the battlefield, sacrifice all artifacts you control, search through your library for that many basic lands, put them into play, then shuffle your library. If an effect an opponent controls would make you pay any amount of mana, you may instead pay {0}. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare
Nat. Ural Selection
  When Nat. Ural Selection enters the battlefield, sacrifice all artifacts you control, search through your library for that many basic lands, put them into play, then shuffle your library.
If an effect an opponent controls would make you pay any amount of mana, you may instead pay  .
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For Challenge # 025. I pressed the random button on Gatherer, and was much less lucky this time, ending up with Natural Selection. Deciding to make the best of a bad situation, I looked up the word Nat in Dictionary.com. It turns out that the National Party of a few countries uses Nat. as an abbreviation... specifically New Zealand. After doing a bit of research, I figured if the NZ Nat. party was based in the Ural region of Russia, they would probably focus on the vast agricultural district of Russia, and (partially) reject the large industrial centers. They also wouldn't like to be taxed. Hence part 1 and part 2. The Nats also seem to have a thing about everyone being a citizen treated the same way... I tried to include "All creatures are Townsfolk in addition to their other types.", but that was too many lines of text.
Feel free to tell me off if you're a Kiwi and I'm wrong. As far as U.S. news sources are concerned, there isn't anything on the other side of the pond, unless it threatens our liberties. :(