Felidar Savior

The +1/+1 counter is the quiet reason this creature works the way it does. Anthem effects and floating pumps evaporate when the source dies or the spell resolves once; counters stay welded to the board. A pair of go-wide tokens turned into 2/2s here don't shrink when this Cat dies to a wrath, and they scale with sacrifice, blink, and combat math on their own clock. That permanence is what makes a modest 2/3 body worth in decks built around accumulating small creatures: the value is banked the moment it enters, not rented against the Cat's survival. Lifelink is the pillow on top, keeping an aggressive counter-plan from racing itself out of the game. White has always paid off a board rather than built one, and this is that instinct denominated in permanent buffs across up to two targets instead of a temporary team-wide bump: closer to the token-doubling and anthem tradition in intent, but structurally different because the reward outlives its source. It rewards a battlefield that already exists, requiring only bodies to point at, which makes it a natural fit for +1/+1 counter shells that want every trigger to compound rather than reset.