Daily Card Redesign #165: Fertile Ground

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

ORIGINAL:

REDESIGN:

The art has an unusual focus on these flying insects. They're obtaining the nectar / whatever-that-this. This means they're interacting with the land. So, I saw it fit to still be a land Aura card. It definitely couldn't be a flying green creature card since, well, that's not what is supposed to do. 

What green does do is hate on flying creatures. And within its repertoire of methods of dealing with creatures is having a Fog effect. So, mechanically and flavorfully, having a flying creature be distracted by the more fertile lands of this enchanted land would make sense.

One last thing to make this make sense - why does this fertile land only affect flying creatures? Sure, the art depicts flying creatures, but what IS it about the depiction that makes it so that these insects are going bananas? ...Oh, it's the flower-y type stuff. Stuff that only these creatures go bonkers for. Flowers! That's a simple, elegant, grok-able thing.

So, a flowered place means it has... well, flowers. Smooth.