Chandra, Novice Pyromancer

The tribal-anchor Chandra, and the odd one out among her many incarnations. Every other Chandra channels red's identity through raw damage output or ritual acceleration; this one hangs its plus ability on Elementals, a creature type she has flavorful ties to but that rarely commits the board presence a repeatable pump wants. The plus is the tell: +2/+0 to a battlefield of Elementals only pays off if you have built toward that, which asks a lot when the other two abilities generate value on an empty board. That tension defines her. The minus abilities make her a competent, low-ceiling planeswalker in any red deck (a two-mana ritual and a two-damage bolt do work regardless of the board), while the plus is a promise the surrounding cardpool has to make good on. The −1 ritual pointing back into her own casting is the small elegant piece, filtering loyalty into mana on a turn you have nothing to pump, then using that mana to keep casting. But the design reads as a beginner-framed walker built around a tribal hook rather than the format-warping burn engine Chandra usually represents: five starting loyalty, a straightforward damage line at moderate cost, and a plus ability that gently teaches the payoff of committing to a creature type. She is Chandra pitched at the player still learning why you build around a tribe at all.