Brokers Ascendancy

Anthem effects usually pay for their symmetry by capping out: a static +1/+0 to your team, a one-time counter distribution, a number you can plan around. This one refuses to settle. It compounds. On each of your end steps it adds another counter to every creature and every planeswalker you control, so the board does not merely get bigger, it accelerates: turn five is a small nudge, turn nine is a runaway. Because the trigger fires at the beginning of your end step, the counters start landing the very turn it resolves, so there is no wind-up cost paid in wasted tempo. The genuinely unusual clause is the planeswalker one, because loyalty counters do not decay and this hands them out for free once per turn cycle, quietly outrunning the ultimate cost on anything that sits under it. The tension lives entirely in the mana. Three colors on a three-mana enchantment is a steep entry, and its payoff scales with how many bodies you already have to feed, so it wants a developed board more than an empty one. Left alone across a few turns, the counter math stops being an accumulation and becomes a clock. The discipline holding the exponential in check is not a delayed first trigger but the vulnerability of the enchantment itself: it survives on your opponent's willingness to let it tick, and every turn they wait, the interest owed climbs.