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Unfortunately the way it's worded they can just keep sacrificing the first Waste token they get. You'd either wanna specify nontoken or make it like "choose a land that player controls"
Not very Burnin' Sherman as it is currently writen.
It'd have to say "non-token", since they are the ones creating the token they'd control it (I think you control anything on your battlefield regardless but not 100% on that).
I am unsure how token ownership works... but I don't think that is good either as that removes the ability of sacrificing a land you've stolen.
I can't think of a single instance where a token gets created under another player's control that doesn't directly instruct that player to create the token.
Iirc years ago the owner and controller could be different. The controller would be the player under whose control it entered and the owner would be whoever controlled the effect that created the token. I don't remember when they changed that but I do remember that being how it used to work.
Thanks for this! I assumed this would be the case, but you do get rule oddities in magic, especially in weird cases like this. I can't think of an instance of that either, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one somewhere.