Fertile Promise

[Vicotnic]

Fertile Promise
GW
Sorcery
If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it and put it into your hand.

Search your library for a basic Forest cards and put it into play tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"A promise of green leaves and golden wheat the spring carried."

White land fetch meets green land fetch.

[Lil Lobos]

Type of cycling? I can basically do almost the same thing w/t Pale Recluse. Still, it doesn't hurt to have another.

[Anusien]

As written, it always gets a Forest and sometimes also gets a Plains.  Rather neat, I think.

[Vicotnic]

Not at all like Pale Recluse, this one always gets you a forest into play and sometimes a plains to your hand.

[Lil Lobos]

Somewhat better than pale recluse? yeah. I wouldn't mind at all (now that I've read it carefully and have understood its effect) haveing at least 3 of these guys in a mana heavy deck (Bant, Naya or  theme).

[Vicotnic]

I think Pale Recluse is a bad comparison. Pale Recluse is a mana fix/creature, this is a mana accelerator (it does not fix your mana since it only find you basic forests/plains and already cost GW).

[Lil Lobos]

I guess, but I still wouldn't sell out Pale Recluse just yet. I wouold instead put both Pale Recluse and Fertile Promise in a deck that would need alot of mana fixing and accelerating.

[Vicotnic]

yea,  they are to very diffrent kind of cards filling diffrent rolls, both would have there merits.

[Matt]

This is going to be very confusing unless you reverse the abilities, and probably combine them too.

Search your library for a basic Forest card and put it into play tapped. Then, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it and put it into your hand.
Shuffle your library.

However that does slightly weaken the card since the #land check happens after the forest comes into play. But if you do it the other way, a lot of people are going to misread the card and think you only get the forest if you pass the #land check.

[Vicotnic]

You got a point there, however it really makes the card a lot worse, almost turning it into a worse rampan growth that is two colored. Maybe one could use the wording "Then, if no opponent controll fewer lands then you,...." but that kind of ruines some of it's resoundance... hmmm =/

[BruiZar]

This is much more like tithe than pale recluse. However, if you make the land come into play first it becomes useless.

[wiley]

How about:

Search your library for a basic Forest card. If you control fewer lands than an opponent, you may also search your library for a basic Plains card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

You may put a basic Forest card from your hand onto the Battlefield.

[zeus-online]

That'd be an awesome card.....Kodama's reach is quite good, and this is kodama's for 2 mana....although limited to GW.

[Harlequin]

Its only Kodama's Reach if you have less lands than your opponent.  Otherwise its a strictly worse-than rampant growth. 

I like this card because it creates tention with itself.  Do you run this in a deck that needs lots of lands in play?  It puts lands in play, but it also requires you to already have fewer lands in play.  Also its not great in multiples (unless you can use the lands in play via Goblin Trenches, or Zuran Orb etc).