Setessan Battle Priest

Heroic asked players to spend spells targeting their own creatures, and the mechanic's payoffs ran the gamut from +1/+1 counters to scry to extra creatures. This one bends the trigger toward attrition rather than tempo: every aura, every protective combat trick, every buff doubles as two life, turning a deck already built to chain targeted spells into a slow drain on the opponent's aggression. The 1/3 body is the giveaway about intent. It is not a clock; it is a wall that pays you for fortifying it, a base toughness sturdy enough to survive the early game while the cumulative lifegain piles up off spells you were casting anyway. That incidental quality is the whole pitch: the gain is free in the sense that you never spend a card or a mana to trigger it, only to redirect spells whose primary purpose is something else. Where most heroic creatures wanted you to push damage with the bonus, this one wants you to outlast, which makes it an odd fit alongside the aggressive shells the mechanic usually rewarded and a natural one in any build that treats targeted spells as a deliberate, repeatable resource.