All Will Be One

Counters had always been a resource for accountants: +1/+1 counters ticking upward, poison stacks accumulating, loyalty rising and falling, charge counters counting down toward an activation. This is the enchantment that reads all of that bookkeeping as a burn spell. The trigger does not care what kind of counter you place or why; the moment one or more counters land on any permanent or player, that same number of damage points fly at something an opponent controls. That indifference to counter type is the whole engine. A proliferate spell that adds a counter to five permanents becomes five damage across your chosen targets. An infect creature that connects becomes reach. A planeswalker's plus ability, a saga's chapter counter, a modular death trigger: each doubles as direct damage aimed wherever it hurts. Even counters you place on the opposing side count, so a -1/-1 shrink or a poison counter dealt to an opponent feeds the same trigger. The danger is not the rate on any single trigger but the density a dedicated counter deck can chain in one turn, since the ability restacks every time counters are placed. What sizes the payoff is direction: the damage only ever points at opponents, their creatures, or their planeswalkers. That does not make the card purely offensive, since burning down an attacker is a real defensive line, but it can never be turned inward to protect your own board. What makes it more than a payoff is how many unrelated mechanics it retroactively reads as combo pieces; a card that never mentions damage becomes a source of it the instant any counter is placed.