 in its mana cost, X is 0.Ocelot Pride gives white lifegain and token decks a one-mana creature that can build a board during the end step. If you gained life that turn, it creates a Cat token. With the city's blessing, it then copies each token you control that entered during the turn, allowing a productive token-making turn to become much larger before you pass.
First strike and lifelink help Ocelot Pride supply the life-gain condition through combat, while Soul Warden can enable it without an attack. Treasure, Food, and other noncreature tokens also matter for the copying portion, provided they are still under your control and entered that turn. Token doublers can further increase output, though the exact results depend on which events and replacement effects are involved.
Ascend grants the city's blessing once you control at least ten permanents, and you keep that blessing afterward even if your permanent count falls. Lands count toward the ten, making the threshold easier to reach than a count limited to creatures. The Cat created by the end-step ability can also be among the tokens copied when the blessing condition is met.
The copying does not repeat indefinitely during the same resolution. It copies the qualifying tokens once for that effect rather than continually copying the newly made copies. Build with reliable life gain and token production so the card contributes before the blessing, then use the enhanced end step to convert a strong development turn into lasting board presence.
