Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Three-mana planeswalkers live and die by whether the board they land into already justifies them, and this one is built entirely for the aggressive Gruul shell that has committed to creatures first. The static anthem is the anchor: +1/+0 to your whole team means the card is doing work the turn it arrives without spending loyalty, a rare property for a planeswalker priced this low. The plus ability reads like ramp but functions as insurance, adding a red or green while making that turn's creature spells uncounterable, a clause aimed squarely at the control decks a beatdown deck most fears. The minus turns your anthem-boosted attacker into removal, and the sequencing there is the sharp part: a creature that just grew from the static effect fights at its inflated power, so the two abilities compound rather than sit in separate lanes. That interlock is why this reads as a designed piece of the beatdown puzzle rather than a grab-bag of Gruul verbs. What holds it back is honest and structural: strip the creatures away and every line collapses, since the anthem hits nothing, the uncounterable rider protects nothing, and the fight has no attacker to swing. It is a planeswalker that demands a battlefield, not one that builds you back into a game you are losing.