Abzan Battle Priest

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4cmc 3/2 Human Cleric — grants lifelink to all your creatures with +1/+1 counters, and can slowly grow itself via Outlast. Signature in +1/+1 counters and lifegain shells where it turns a board full of counters into a life-total advantage engine, but the 4-mana body is undersized and Outlast is sorcery-speed only, making it fragile and slow in most contexts.

• Abzan Battle Priest's lifelink grant is a static ability on each creature, not a global anthem — each counter-bearing creature independently has lifelink, which matters for combat assignments and lifegain triggers.

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• Outlast is not a keyword mechanic with a mech- tag in the taxonomy, but functions as a sorcery-speed activated ability that puts a +1/+1 counter on the creature, making it relevant in counters synergy decks despite its slow speed.

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• In a heavy +1/+1 counters deck (e.g., Atraxa or Hamza), this card turns every counter-bearing creature into a lifelink threat, potentially enabling massive life swings in go-wide board states — its power scales nonlinearly with board width.

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• EDHREC rank: #3,523