Saruli Gatekeepers

Seven life is a fixed dividend paid only to a deck that has chosen to make its lands a tribe. That is the conditional at the heart of this 2/4: the body alone is a serviceable early wall, but the lifegain demands you control two or more Gates when it enters, a board state most green decks would never assemble on purpose. So it functions less as a creature than as a green payoff in the small family of Gate-matters effects, a reward for treating your manabase as a synergy engine rather than a coincidence. The gain itself is generous and flat (a clean seven, no incremental scaling), which makes it a sturdy swing against a fast clock the moment the condition is live. The 2/4 frame is built for that exact moment: a blocker that absorbs most early attacks while the life buys time to stabilize. What keeps the effect from running away is its shape. The trigger fires once on entry and only when the Gate count is met, so there is no repeatable engine to exploit without real work bending the card back onto the battlefield. The reward arrives in a single lump, gated behind a deckbuilding commitment you make several turns before the payoff ever lands.