Abzan Battle Priest
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.




