Final Wording

Golden Lotus
Legendary Land (M)
Shroud
Golden Lotus enters the battlefield tapped.
When Golden Lotus enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice three lands.
{T}, Sacrifice Golden Lotus: Add nine mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

So yes you can now stiffle the ability, and you can float 3 mana now.....

Time to break this....

Just a thought:

Deck Full of Brokeness:

18 Islands
4 Golden Lotus

4 Stiffle
4 TrickBind

4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Counterbalance
4 Sensies Divining Top
2 Spellsnare

4 Phyrexian DreadNaught
4 Progentius
4 Nicolas Bolas