Woeleecher

This card runs in reverse the very thing its native idiom existed to inflict: where wither and persist deal in the -1/-1 counter as a curse and a tax, this elemental peels one of those counters off and turns the repair into a two-life payment. The conditional structure carries the whole engine: life only arrives if a counter actually comes off, so there is no idle activation and no payout for nothing. Pointed at your own board it grinds, resetting a persist creature for another death loop or undoing an opponent's incremental shrinking, with a small life trickle accruing as the reward for patience. The catch is that the same ability happily aims across the table, and pulling a counter off an opposing creature un-shrinks it, so every click is a decision rather than a button you mash. The white pip and the tap per use cap the speed; the 3/5 body is shaped to hang back and keep activating rather than attack. As a piece of design history it is a clean instance of a block taking its signature drawback and printing the in-color answer to it, converting a board-state liability into a resource the slow player can mine.