Lifegain Payoff

Cards that turn each lifegain event into a payoff: counters, drains, or board-wide buffs that fire on the trigger "whenever you gain life." Ajani's Pridemate grows with each gain, Archangel of Thune showers +1/+1 counters across your board, Heliod, Sun-Crowned puts counters on a creature or enchantment, and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose mirrors your gains as opponent life loss. Distinct from lifegain.lifegain_source, which produces the gain trigger without rewarding it, and from lifegain.life_doubler, which multiplies the amount gained rather than triggering off the event. Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood sit here as gain-driven payoffs even though they also register as lifegain.drain.