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Land Tax, a card designed to give opponents a disincentive against destroying lands, is a powerful card-drawing and shuffling engine

But It turned out to be far more powerful than anyone could have expected, and it was swiftly banned in Standard, as well as several other formats

Common among them is their origin in the earliest sets of the TCG: so far, all those which have been printed are from Base Set and Jungle or are promotional cards from the first three years of the TCG's existence

Waiting until Best Friend reduces it even further to 40,000 Stardust

Whenever you sacrifice a Food, put a +1/+1 counter on Rapacious Guest