Vivien's Talent

The design conceit here is treating a planeswalker as terrain rather than a threat: an Aura on a permanent that already vanishes the moment its loyalty hits zero. That double vulnerability (kill the Aura, kill the walker, or just let the walker die on its own) is the tax the effect pays for how much it front-loads. What it grants is a self-perpetuating loyalty machine. The granted +1 is a dig-four impulse toward creatures and lands, which by itself is fine value, but the second clause is the real engine: every nontoken creature you control that enters adds a loyalty counter, so a board that develops on curve can push the enchanted walker's loyalty upward faster than the activations spend it. That inverts the usual planeswalker math, where each activation is a loan against an eventual ultimate; here your own creatures pay the loan back. It turns any planeswalker (even one whose native abilities you have no interest in) into a loyalty battery you can safely tick every turn while your creatures top it back off. The load-bearing restrictions are doing quiet work: the counter cares only about nontoken creatures under your control, so opponents' boards never feed it and a go-wide token shell gets nothing from the engine. That steers the card toward genuine creature investment. A niche piece of the small family of Auras that enchant planeswalkers, built for grindy green midrange that was already flooding the board with real bodies.