Chandra, Hope's Beacon

The triggered ability at the top is the whole reason this planeswalker plays differently from every Chandra before her: a spell-copy that fires the moment you cast an instant or sorcery, no sacrifice, no clause about instants only, no loyalty spent. That "only once each turn" line is the tax that keeps the copy from turning every burn spell into a runaway loop, and it shapes how you sequence a turn: you cast the one spell that matters most first, let it get copied, then run out the rest. Doubling a removal spell to hit two threats, or a card-draw spell to refill, or a game-ending burn spell to split across two faces, all happen for the price of casting the spell you were going to cast anyway. The loyalty abilities feed that engine rather than compete with it. The plus-two rituals mana into a bigger turn, effectively acting as a repeatable cost reducer once you fold the free copy into the math. The plus-one is impulse card advantage that respects the same instant-and-sorcery diet, keeping the trigger fed. The minus-X is the pressure valve, a two-target burn finisher for closing games, though as an activated ability it never trips the copy on its own. She reads as a value engine, but the design is really about compression: making one cast do the work of two, every turn, without ever spending loyalty to do it.