Ajani, Outland Chaperone

The −2 is the tell that this Ajani is built for a board, not a stall. Most planeswalker removal fires at any creature; this one only reaches something already tapped, so it wants an opponent who has committed to combat or spent a tap-based activation before the shot connects. That constraint steers the whole card toward a proactive, go-wide build: the +1 drips out 1/1 Kithkin, and those bodies pressure the opponent into attacking back or holding blockers up, which produces the tapped attacker the removal needs as a target. The two abilities interlock into a small aggro engine that protects Ajani by threatening the opponent rather than by walling them, reading as much like a token plan as a traditional control piece. The ultimate rewards that approach retroactively: it counts your life total, which a proactive white deck tends to keep high, digs that many cards deep, and drops any number of cheap nonland permanents straight onto the battlefield. Restricting the payoff to mana value three or less keeps it tethered to the deck it belongs to (Kithkin, small utility creatures, one-drop bodies) instead of putting bombs into play. Every number points at the same archetype: flood the board early, use the −2 to punish creatures that tapped to attack or activate, spend loyalty clearing what survives, and if the game reaches eight loyalty, reload from a library still full of the small creatures you have been casting all along.