Treebeard, Gracious Host

Lifegain payoffs usually cascade into a single fatty or a token swarm; this one funnels the gains sideways, converting every point of life into a proportional pile of +1/+1 counters spread onto Halflings or Treefolk. That tribal restriction is the whole design pivot: the card is not a generic lifegain engine but a lord that grows a very specific board, and the two Food tokens it makes on entry are not incidental value but the starter fuel, since sacrificing a Food is itself a lifegain event that immediately feeds the counter trigger. The 0/5 body reads as inert until you notice that trample turns those stacked counters into damage that ignores chump blockers, and ward taxes the removal that would otherwise reset the investment before it snowballs. The trigger is deliberately open on how you gain the life: any source counts, so the card rewards building a life engine around it rather than relying on its own Food. What makes it more than a flavorful Ent is the multiplier: because the counters scale to the amount of life gained rather than the number of triggers, a single large gain spikes a target past blocker range in one shot, and the Treefolk tag lets it grow itself. It sits at the intersection of the Food and lifegain lineages that white-green has circled for years, using a narrow tribal payoff to give that archetype a finisher instead of just a slow value drip.