Why not? It's tradition.

[Taysby]

Could the new kiora =JtMS?

I don't think so,but it does protect itself extremely well, and helps you ramp and draw, and that emblem...  Mainly I did it just because it seems to be a tradition with all the new walkers.  At the very least, could it turn into a standard JtMS where everyone in standard runs her?

[Arbitratur]

Maybe if you could target herself with the +1 but alas you may not... And also it is much less versatile with it being {U}{G}... So no, def. not... But I do love the card!

[Arbitratur]

But how about just in standard?

I agree that it will be a strong card, and I will be playing it, but no I don't think it has the "king of pop" status like JTMS

[griffin131]

Maybe if you could target herself with the +1 but alas you may not... And also it is much less versatile with it being {U}{G}... So no, def. not... But I do love the card!

Why does not being able to target herself matter?

[MuggyWuggy]

Think people are reading her as "target permanent will not receive damage"

[griffin131]

Maybe if you could target herself with the +1 but alas you may not... And also it is much less versatile with it being {U}{G}... So no, def. not... But I do love the card!

Why does not being able to target herself matter?

Preventing damage means she would only be vulnerable to murderbore.

Ah, gotcha. I don't think it's that big a deal - yes she's vulnerable to burn but I don't see that as too big of a problem. I'm looking forward to her.

[Gorzo]

There will never be another JTMS. They learned their lesson about overpowering Planeswalker to comically absurd +'s and 0's.

Now if Kiora's -1 were a +1 or a 0, then I'd be singing a different tune.

She's great, absolutely, but my advice is to stop looking for mind sculptor v2

[Kaworu, the Fifth Child]

I think she's almost three fourths as good at most buuut she is a good combo player so she's more playable in my eyes (really because she's not banned in anything lol)

[Anoobass]

Honestly, I don't see much playability outside of {maze end} decks.  T4 dropping a PW with 2 loyalty is not great.  Don't get me wrong I'm throwing 2 in my maze deck, but aside from that, I see no competitive play.