Court Cleric

A one-drop with a tribal typeline and a payoff bolted to a planeswalker that, by nature, is almost never on the board the moment you most want the bonus. The lifelink is the floor: a small attrition body that trades up on defense and pads a life total on offense, the kind of cheap creature white aggressive decks have always wanted at the bottom of the curve. The +1/+1 clause is the wrinkle, and it is a deliberately narrow one, keyed not to a creature type or a color but to a single named character's planeswalkers. That turns the card into less a build-around than a reward for a deck already committed to one specific axis: with an Ajani in play, the cleric becomes a 2/2 lifelinker for a single white mana, a genuinely strong rate; without one, it is a 1/1 lifegain dork and nothing more. There is no toolbox here and no flexibility to uncover; the card is good exactly when its precondition is met and forgettable when it is not. It belongs to the small family of low-rarity creatures printed to give a marquee planeswalker cheap early board presence, a body to soak damage and protect the headliner, the supporting cast that exists so the star has something to defend it on turn one.