Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
Most white planeswalkers built around +1/+1 counters run in one direction: commit a board, then anthem it wider. The minus-two here flips that instinct, treating the graveyard as a stockpile of cheap bodies to return rather than a source of raw power. Capping reanimation at mana value two or less is the deliberate ceiling: this is not a way to loop fatties but a way to reclaim the sacrifice fodder, enters-the-battlefield triggers, and one-drop utility creatures that grindy white decks live on, the same disposable bodies the plus-one then grows. The two halves interlock without either being explosive alone. The plus-one ticks loyalty toward the ultimate while defending itself by spreading counters across two creatures instead of one, and the minus-two rebuilds after a sweeper at a cost of only two loyalty, leaving Ajani at a defensible perch. The emblem, once it lands, converts the whole engine into a lifelink token flood that wins attrition wars rather than races. No single ability is backbreaking; the loyalty budget is tuned so that a stocked graveyard and a board of small creatures make Ajani self-sustaining, hard to kill and harder to out-card. This is the white midrange planeswalker designed to grind out the long game, not to steal the early one.
