Liliana's Influence
A one-sided attrition spell with a tutor stapled to it, and the second clause tells you precisely who it was built for. A single -1/-1 counter on each creature you don't control is not a wrath: it kills tokens and one-toughness bodies outright, softens the middle of the curve, and leaves everything genuinely large still attacking. What makes even that modest reduction dangerous is the vector. Where the usual destroy-everything template stalls against indestructible creatures, shrinking toughness is one of the few ways past indestructibility, so anything dropped to zero dies regardless of its keywords. The counter placement matters too: it is not damage, so it sticks past end of turn and stacks with any other -1/-1 counters already in play. The rider is what marks this as a planeswalker tie-in, fetching Liliana, Death Wielder by name from library or graveyard straight to hand: the kind of search-for-one-specific-card text reserved for the handful of cards built to pair with a flagship character. The two halves work as a sequence. The counters thin a board you have fallen behind on, and the tutor hands you the threat to close from there, so one card does the work of a partial sweeper and a finisher fetched afterward. It is a designed-as-a-pair card before it is a generically good one, and that intent shapes how it reads from the first line.
