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Yeah, I like the second one better. Allowing interaction and protection seems like a good idea, and makes the card less of a feels bad.
That being said, I think a more thematic effect would be something along the lines of a "Blood Moon" like effect. "Target lands loses all land types and abilities, and gains the ability '{T}: Add {C}". Though this offers less interaction and is a massive feel bad for decks that rely on a land for a combo since it would still be in the field just unusable.
Blood moon style would be cool.
Mechanically, it's the same thing, really, but yeah, thematics.
Create a "wastes" ability counter like flying counters and finality counters. The counter has a rules-based ability that says the card its on is a land (without the 'in addition to other types' line) and taps for colorless mana, and loses all abilities.
Then the ability can be messed with, via cards that mess with counters and blinking/return to hand effects, but none of those are that easy to do to a land, which is fine for a 6-mana creature I feel.