Chandra, Flameshaper

Seven mana is the ceiling for a red planeswalker, and this one earns it by refusing to sit still on any single axis. The plus-two is the loudest gesture: three red mana plus an impulsive dig three deep, which does two things at once, refilling a burned-out hand while ramping hard enough to cast something the same turn you activated it. Red rarely gets to draw and ramp in the same breath, and pinning it to a walker's loyalty engine sidesteps the color's usual card-disadvantage tax. The plus-one reads as a support ability but is closer to a payoff button: a hasty end-step copy is a burst of damage or a doubled enter-the-battlefield trigger, sacrificed before the turn ends, so it wants a board already worth duplicating. And the minus-four is not a control valve; it is the kill. Eight damage divided however you choose among any number of creatures and planeswalkers is a board sweep or a two-for-one execution or a walker assassination, available the turn she lands at six loyalty. What makes the card cohere is that all three modes point the same way: pressure. There is no defensive tick, no fog, no tuck. Every activation either finds more gas, converts a board into reach, or ends something. She is built for a deck already trying to win, handing it the resources to close.