Angel of Renewal

The lifegain scales with the board, and that scaling is the whole proposition: on an empty table the enters trigger counts only itself, yielding a single point and leaving a six-mana 4/4 flier that pulls no weight for its cost. Land it alongside half a dozen Allies and the same trigger, resolving off a full board, can swing a race in one cast. The body is deliberately plain: flying is the only text past the enters trigger, no protection, no second ability, so the payoff lives entirely in the count you have when it resolves. It sits inside the Ally tribal lineage, where any single card means little and the total is the engine, and it lands at the top of that curve as a stabilizer rather than a closer, something to cast after the cheap creatures have already filled the board, buying the turns a wide, token-heavy plan needs to grind the long game out. Outside a deck built toward a real creature count, the trigger rounds to nothing and the card is a slow flier and little else. That is the honest read: a payoff measured at the moment it enters, worth exactly what your board is worth, itself included, when the ability resolves.