Two weeks ago, an article on Joystiq unveiled a deck from Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 belonging to a brand-new planeswalker character: Kiora Atua. Then just last week, at the end of Doug Beyer's Savor the Flavor article we got our first real peek at her, and this blurb:
"Kiora Atua is a merfolk planeswalker who commands the powers of the depths. Kiora venerates the huge creatures of the sea—krakens, leviathans, and other denizens of the inky depths—because for her they are evidence that even the most persistent forces can be endured: time, water, predation, and darkness. Kiora is a blue- and green-aligned Planeswalker. She seems calm and wise, but her dreams are bizarre beyond imagining."
Now tell me you don't get a little Lovecraftian shiver down your spine from that last line.
So. A new planeswalker? This is the sort of thing that gets Vorthos going anyway, but this one is particularly exciting for me for several reasons:
- She's U/G! New planeswalker color-combination ahoy!
- GIANT OCTOPUS
- She is deep. Really, really, deep. No, deeper than that. She is deep! Even with so little revealed, I feel like I could go on forever talking about her.
- KRAKENS-KRAKENS-KRAKENS
- Just look at that art! In fact, dive in and look at that art after the jump.
