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Abzan Battle Priest

Creature — Human Cleric3 generic manaWhite mana

Lifelink as a static handout rather than a keyword you have to print on each body: any creature you control wearing a +1/+1 counter drains life back to you for the damage it deals, and the moment the counter comes off, so does the lifegain. That conditionality is the whole reason the effect can be this broad. In a deck built around +1/+1 counters, this turns a board of evasive threats into a clock that races attrition decks out of the game, because every point of combat damage doubles as a point of life. The Outlast clause makes it self-sufficient: tap it as a sorcery to grow itself, and it qualifies for its own lifelink grant, but the tradeoff is real, since outlasting means it does not attack the turn you do it. The design tension is between using the body as an attacker and using it as a counter engine, and the card is honest about forcing that choice every turn. Its real ceiling is as a payoff anchor in a counters-matters shell, where it converts a graft-and-bolster strategy that was always tempo-positive into one that gains life on every swing. A 3/2 that gives itself the keyword it hands out is a tidy bit of internal logic, even if the body itself is the least interesting thing about it.

Abzan Battle Priest (ktk)
KTK · #1uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
Foil: $1.85
Oracle Text

Rules text

Outlast White mana (White mana, Tap: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has lifelink.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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