Seedpod Caretaker

Incubator tokens are a two-stage mechanic: you make the token cheaply, then pay to transform it into an artifact creature, and that second payment is the friction that keeps the subtheme from snowballing. This Cleric shortcuts the back half. Its enter trigger flips an Incubator without the transform cost, converting a token you already paid to make into a body for free. The modal design keeps it live when no Incubator is around: the +1/+1 counter mode plays cleanly in any white artifact or go-wide shell, so it never rots in hand waiting for a specific enabler. That the counter can land on an artifact and not just a creature is the quiet wrinkle, since it lets you grow an uncrewed Vehicle or a still-inert artifact ahead of the turn it animates, banking stats a plain "target creature" clause could not reach. What holds the rate in check is that both modes are one-shot enter triggers; you get one shot per resolution, so a blink effect or recursion is the only way to bank the value twice, rather than a standing engine. It is a support piece built to make an artifact-token payoff arrive a turn ahead of schedule, and it is honest enough about that job to still function when the payoff is not there.