Ajani, the Greathearted
Board-wide vigilance is a rare thing for a planeswalker to hand out, and it arrives with nothing paid: the keyword blankets every creature you control the moment he lands. That collapses the attack-or-defend tension planeswalker protection usually forces, since the bodies swinging in also stay upright to block for the walker who buffs them. Everything else leans into that reciprocity. The plus gains life without touching the board, funding a slow loyalty climb that his own team already guards. The minus is a group anthem that spreads counters across your creatures and, unusually, tops up your other planeswalkers as well: an ability shaped for a battlefield crowded with fellow walkers rather than a lone commander of a token swarm. That second clause is the tell of its era, a design that assumes a superfriends board and rewards its width by advancing several loyalty totals in one activation. His durability comes from the math: no ability costs more than two loyalty, and the passive costs nothing, so he tends to survive his arrival turn and hand his own creatures the vigilance that lets them attack without leaving him exposed. He plays less like a threat than a lattice, tying creatures and planeswalkers into one board that pushes forward and holds the line at once, from a starting investment low enough that the web is already load-bearing the turn it goes up.
