Huatli, Warrior Poet
The three abilities aren't a menu you pick from; they're a loop you turn, and the interesting part is that the natural sequence doesn't run top to bottom. You start in the middle, spinning off a 3/3 green Dinosaur with trample from an empty board, so she's never a wasted five drop even with nothing in play. Once there's a body worth counting, the +2 becomes a payout instead of a formality: the loyalty gained is always exactly two, but the life you bank tracks your greatest creature's power, so the same button that idles at a trivial cushion early pays a real buffer once the dinosaurs land. That growing gap between fixed loyalty and scaling life is the whole design tension: she rewards committing to the board and asks patience of nothing but your own tempo. The minus is where the stockpile cashes: a Falter effect stapled to a damage spread, dealing X across creatures and forbidding them to block, which clears the way for the same fatties whose power inflated your life total to swing in unanswered. Few planeswalkers ladder this cleanly (seed a board, fatten the life total, then strip the blockers for a lethal alpha strike) rather than parceling out three independent tools. The flavor sits flush against the math: a fighter whose vigor rises with the beasts she rides, her ultimate the closing line that ends the fight.
