Kiora, Master of the Depths
The plus ability is the quiet tell of how this Kiora was built: untapping a creature and a land in the same breath is a Simic-coded reward for a ramp-and-pressure board state, letting a tapped-out turn defend her loyalty while feeding the next one. That untap-a-land clause has obvious appeal to any deck running mana with text on it, which keeps the planeswalker honest as a value engine rather than a control fixture. The minus two is a graveyard-feeding dig that only ever hands back a creature and a land, so even as it spends loyalty it sorts your library toward exactly the resources the plus wants to leverage, seeding fuel without overflowing your hand. Where this card commits hardest is the ultimate, which is two payoffs stapled together: an emblem that turns every future creature into a Fight trigger against a target, and three 8/8 Octopus tokens to start cashing that emblem the moment it resolves. The fight-on-entry emblem is removal that never stops, a board-eating engine that punishes any creature deck on the other side, and the Octopus tokens make it lethal-fast rather than grindy. The whole design routes toward that finish: untap to survive, dig to assemble, then convert a creature-heavy battlefield into a repeating fight-machine. It is a green-blue planeswalker that wants bodies on the table and a long enough game to reward them.
