Teferi, Timebender
The Planeswalker Deck Teferi: a deliberately scaled-down version of the time-magic identity built for players learning the format, not for the existing card pool to absorb. The skeleton mirrors the marquee Teferi designs of its era, but every dial is turned down. The plus untaps a single artifact or creature instead of a board's worth of permanents; the minus refills the hand by two and pads life rather than bouncing threats and ticking up; the ultimate hands you an extra turn at minus nine, the highest loyalty cost on the card and a number you will reach by sitting behind the plus for several turns. That last point is the whole shape of the design: an extra-turn ultimate is the genre's signature payoff, and pricing it at nine while the plus only adds two means the engine is calibrated to take real time to assemble, which is exactly what a starter-deck centerpiece should do. The card teaches the planeswalker reading order (defend, draw, eventually win) without the explosive loyalty math that makes a tournament Teferi a removal-magnet. It is honest about what it is for: a legendary that anchors a precon's curve and shows a newer player how the card type works, with no pretensions toward the constructed builds its full-power namesakes warp.
