Soulmender

Lifegain stripped to its skeleton: one white mana buys a 1/1 that taps for a single point of life, repeatable each turn at no cost beyond the tap. There is no payoff bolted on, no relevant body, no wrinkle in the timing. A point of life per activation is a rounding error against any clock worth measuring, so the card asks nothing of you and offers almost nothing back on its own. Its whole reason for existing lives in the cards that read the lifegain it produces. The incremental Cleric healer is an old and recurring shape in white commons, and this is its barest form: a one-drop that supplies a reliable lifegain event every turn for whatever engine sits on top of it, whether that engine wants to convert each gain into a card, scaled damage, a counter, or a wincon. That dependency is the identity. It is connective tissue rather than a finished tool, common precisely because the role calls for something cheap and replaceable: a steady drip of activations a lifegain shell is built to harvest.