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Land is what was supposed to come in place of EP3. Ryuukishi decided to scrap that project and create Banquet instead. Whether Land was actually written or something that was in his mind is not known, but it is known that Ryuukishi mentioned it in a few occasions.
What it's known is that Land was supposed to be "harder" than Banquet and some part of it were later cannibalized by EP6 for the most part.
In EP8 Beatrice claims that Land was a third message that she wrote but which was lost forever in the sea. She says that it was her finest work. Whether this actually reflects Ryuukishi's opinion is not clear, and at any rate Beatrice can only talk of her best among EP1-2 and this "Land". In other words even if Land was supposed to be better than EP1 and EP2, that doesn't mean it was supposed to be better than Banquet or anything that came afterwards.
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