Nylea's Disciple

Devotion turned a stat counter into a payoff, and this is the gain-life payoff built directly on top of it. The lifegain scales with green pips already on the battlefield, so the trigger reads as small when the creature comes down early and large when it lands into a developed green board: in a mono-green deck running into the midgame, the body arrives alongside ten or more life, while in a splash deck it might gain three or four. That self-correcting nature is the whole design logic. The card pays you for committing to green rather than for any specific synergy, which is why it never demanded a tribal shell or a combo; it just rewards the deck that was already going to flood the board with green permanents. The 3/3 body for four is deliberately plain, because the value is supposed to come from the count, not the rate. As a piece of devotion-payoff design it sits at the gentle end of the spectrum: no constructed-defining ceiling, just a clean, legible incentive that the lifegain reward grows in lockstep with how green your deck actually is.