Daily Card Redesign #99: Spreading Algae

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

We're almost there! #100 is right around the corner! Here's the 99th randomized card:

Redesign:

I figured that the algae grows on the swamps after they're tapped, and it's hard to make them fresh again when they're buried undernreath all that algae. Only when you decide to remove the algae and benefit the controller can Swamp untap for another go.