Avid Reclaimer

A two-color mana dork whose reason for existing is stamped right into its ability: control a Nissa planeswalker and tapping it also nets you two life. Strip that clause and you have a 2/2 that fixes between green and blue, perfectly serviceable and entirely forgettable, so the design grafts on a payoff conditioned on a specific permanent type already being in play. The life gain is small in raw value, but the Nissa-control clause is doing the real work: it ties the card's identity to a planeswalker it is named in service of, a flavor-driven build-around rather than a generalist accelerant. Note the shape of that clause. It is not a triggered ability watching for Nissa to arrive; it is a rider baked into the mana ability itself, checked and resolved the moment you activate the tap. Every time the mana ability resolves with Nissa present, the two life comes along with it, no stack interaction, no window to respond to the life gain independent of the mana. The two-color tap is the more durable property, since ramp shells that lean toward blue care about reaching that color off a green body and this supplies it cheaply. But the card's soul is the conditional accessory: a piece of cross-card design that welds a creature's incidental value to another permanent's presence rather than to anything the Druid manages on its own.