Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Every planeswalker before her that made tokens had to choose between building a board and doing something else with loyalty. Here the tension dissolves: the +1 makes fodder, and the passive turns that same fodder into cards the moment it trades or gets swept, so plusing to protect her feeds the exact resource that closes the game. Your creatures dying isn't a cost to route around, it's the draw engine. The -4 is a symmetric edict doubled, but the passive breaks the symmetry cleanly: when your two creatures die you draw, when your opponent's do they just lose bodies. That asymmetry is why she survives on a stalled board where an ordinary Diabolic Edict effect would be a wash. The ultimate is the rare planeswalker finisher that actually ends games rather than promising to: stripping each opponent down to one permanent of each type is a hard reset most decks cannot claw back from. Reaching it is deliberately slow, three plus activations from six loyalty, but the Zombie stream that gets you there is already winning underneath. What ties it together is that no line is dead. Behind a board she plusses and draws; against a board she edicts and draws; ahead she grinds toward the reset. A six-mana walker that answers, refills, and closes without asking the deck to be built around any one of those modes is doing more structural work than the loyalty numbers suggest.