Ajani's Sunstriker

A 2/2 with lifelink at this cost is the rate every set reaches for when it wants a stabilizing body at the bottom of a curve, and the double-white commitment is the lever that pays for it: it pins the card to a deck running heavy white sources rather than letting any deck that wants free life splash it, and that color restriction is the entire pricing argument for a vanilla statline plus a keyword. Lifelink on a two-power body is not a clock; it is a tax on the opponent's race math, turning each unblocked swing into a four-point life gap and each trade into life you keep. The Cat Cleric typing nods at lifegain-matters builds, where the body becomes a recurring trigger rather than a beater, but the design here is deliberately humble: a clean curve-filler for white aggro and lifegain shells that asks nothing of you except the white to cast it. It fills the gap between a one-drop and the spells that actually win, and it does that job without complication.