Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
A planeswalker with no plus ability is the tell: this Arlinn does not tick up, and starting at seven loyalty is how the design pays for that. The static line is the reason to run her, not the activated one. Every Wolf or Werewolf you deploy arrives a size larger, so a tribe that already floods the board with bodies floods it with slightly-too-big bodies, and the −2 feeds itself: the 2/2 it prints enters as a 3/3, because the token she makes is a Wolf her own anthem is already watching. Seven loyalty at two down per activation means three tokens before she bottoms out at one, unable to minus herself again: she is a fixed clock, not a self-emptying engine, and the board is expected to protect her long after she stops making Wolves. That closed loop (make Wolves, buff Wolves) inverts the usual walker math, where loyalty climbs toward an ultimate you are threatening to reach. This design has no ceiling to threaten; it wants to shed loyalty while the battlefield grows underneath, and once she is spent she survives on the anthem alone. She is the payoff piece of a tribe rather than a value engine that stands on its own, but even in a shell with no other Wolves or Werewolves she is not inert: her three tokens still come down oversized, and she lingers afterward as a permanent counter-anthem watching over them. She knows exactly who she is for and asks only that you commit to one creature type.
