Heroic Feast

Lifegain-matters payoffs usually make you choose between axes: you gain life to stall, or you build a wide board and hope to punch through. This collapses that choice by making the gain itself the counter engine. The Food token it makes on entry is not incidental; it is the seed, a stored three-point burst you cash in on your own schedule, and every gain event lets you spread +1/+1 counters across creatures equal to the amount gained. That "up to that many target creatures" clause is the design lever: three life from cracking the Food can put a counter on three separate bodies, widening the whole team at once rather than pumping a single threat. Each creature gets exactly one counter per trigger, so the reward scales with your board's width, not its depth, and it pays a go-wide deck to keep finding small, frequent gains. Because the trigger keys off any lifegain rather than this card's own effect, it converts every incidental life-total bump you already had, from lifelink attackers to Soul Warden-style drips, into permanent board growth. The counters are the part that lasts. Life is a resource that gets spent back down; a +1/+1 counter stays on the creature through the turn cycle, so the enchantment quietly launders a fragile, refundable resource into permanent stats. It sits in green as a static engine rather than a spell, working every turn it survives and asking only that you treat your life total as ammunition rather than a cushion.