Duskfang Mentor

Lifelink is normally an intrinsic property of whatever creature carries it, so granting it usually means anthem effects or one-off buffs that vanish the moment the source leaves. Here it becomes a physical marker you place, then reward. The enter-trigger stamps a lifelink counter onto a non-Human body you control, and the activated ability (for and a tap) grows every lifelinker you have at once. That two-step turns lifelink from a static keyword into a build-around resource, where the counter isn't just combat math but the eligibility ticket for the pump. The self-exclusion baked into the design keeps the engine from collapsing into a single overloaded creature: the mentor grants lifelink only to non-Humans, and it is itself a Human Cleric, so it wants a board of other bodies it can keep enlarging. The 1/3 frame confirms the role. This is not a beater; it is a support piece standing behind the line, spending mana each turn to widen a lifelink swarm that gains life in proportion to the counters it has already distributed. Lifelink and go-wide counters usually pull in opposite directions (one rewards a single fat threat, the other rewards numbers); the mentor stitches them together by making every eligible creature both a lifegain source and a counter recipient in the same activation.