Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
Among the uncommon three-drop planeswalkers in this cycle, this Kiora reads least like a planeswalker and most like an enchantment stapled to a card-advantage engine. The triggered ability does the heavy lifting: a card every time a body with power 4 or greater enters, no loyalty spent, no activation required. That inverts the usual planeswalker math, where the passive is a rider and the loyalty abilities are the point. Here the seven starting loyalty functions mostly as insurance, a high health bar that lets the draw trigger keep firing while an opponent tries to burn it down. The lone activated ability, a minus one to untap target permanent, is the utility knife: freeing a tapped attacker to block, resetting a mana rock or land for a second use, or straightening a creature you just tapped for its own ability. The power-4 threshold is the price of admission; you commit to a top-heavy board, and each qualifying creature is a discrete trigger rather than a self-sustaining loop. Because the draw fires on the creature's enters-the-battlefield event, the card is banked the moment that body resolves, so answering the creature afterward no longer cancels the draw. What she represents is a planeswalker whose job is to sit quietly and refill your hand while fat bodies do the beating, with the loyalty existing to be defended rather than spent.








