Gideon's Company

The lifegain trigger is the load-bearing half, and it does its accounting quietly: not "gain three life, add three counters," but a flat two counters every time a life-gain event resolves, regardless of how much you gained. That distinction rewards frequency over magnitude, so a deck of small repeated lifegain (a soul-warden trigger here, a lifelink attack there) grows this faster than one big swing ever could. Every incremental point of life becomes a fixed +2/+2 installment, and the body compounds turn over turn instead of in a single spike. The second ability is where the card's name earns its keep, funneling mana into loyalty on a Gideon planeswalker: a designed dependency that only pays out when the rest of the deck is built around one specific character's spellbook. That clause is what keeps the card honest as a support piece; the counter engine can carry a game on its own, but the loyalty pump is inert without the right walker on the battlefield. The result is a beater that reads best when the lifegain triggers are already flowing and there is a Gideon worth pumping, and reads like an awkward 3/3 when neither condition is met.