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Elven Passage
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Excellent fixing and a premium GU engine land: it can create two Landfall triggers in one turn, while beholding an Elf makes the fetched basic immediately usable. Outside Elf/Landfall decks it is still playable fixing, but the tapped basic and life payment impose a real tempo cost.
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Gameplay notes
When possible, hold Elven Passage until a turn when two immediate Landfall triggers matter. You may behold an Elf already on the battlefield or reveal one from your hand; revealing does not discard it. Without an Elf, activating Passage on the turn you play it leaves the fetched basic tapped, so plan around losing that turn's mana.
Key synergies
Playing Elven Passage triggers Thranduil once, and sacrificing it to fetch a basic triggers him again, producing two Elf tokens from one land card. Thranduil also satisfies behold so the fetched basic can enter untapped.
The Company can be beheld to untap the fetched basic, while activating Passage on the turn it is played triggers the Company's Landfall ability twice for four total +1/+1 counters.
Elven Passage can be held as a timed Landfall trigger, and Boughside Wanderers can be beheld as an Elf so the fetched basic untaps, preserving mana while giving Wanderers +2/+2.
Playing Elven Passage triggers landfall, and sacrificing it later finds another land for a second, well-timed trigger. Mirkwood Meditator is also an Elf you can behold so the fetched basic untaps.
Elven Passage entering and then fetching a basic gives Hospitality two Landfall triggers in one turn, placing two +1/+1 counters across your creatures.
The Raft-Steerer can be beheld to make the fetched land immediately usable, and the two Landfall triggers can tap two blockers, untap two creatures, or split the modes for a large tempo swing.
Wood Elves is an Elf that can be beheld when Elven Passage is sacrificed, allowing the basic land found by the Passage to enter untapped while both cards advance the landfall plan.
Sacrificing Elven Passage fetches a land to trigger Silvan Reveler's graveyard recursion, and because the Reveler is an Elf, beholding it untaps the fetched land to help pay the recursion cost.
Elven Passage fetches a basic directly onto the battlefield to trigger the Saga's landfall ability, and the Saga's Elf tokens make it easy to behold an Elf so that basic enters untapped.
After triggering Dancing when initially played, Elven Passage can be sacrificed to put another land onto the battlefield, producing an additional Bear at a chosen time.