On the plus side there is now a Tamiyo card in EMN. On the minus side, she's three color.

Eh, quite frankly, it mostly feels like they don't want competition for the gatewatch's mono identities, so it isn't even an issue of growing the character rather than making sure people are stuck with Jace as THE blue walker.
It also sort of throws out the idea that colors are allowed to be nuanced.

There's nothing un-mono-blue about her character to start with. You can attribute things to other colors, but... It's unnecessary.

...Punny.

I wonder how long it'll be until we're rid of the Gatewatch...

biospark88 asked: The new Tamiyo could easily be mono-blue. All of her abilities are in blue's pie. Is she Bant just to balance her?

She’s Bant so we can print her. In order to get a sixth planeswalker in the block, we had to make something more narrow to not cause developmental problems.

So the option was to print her at three colors or not print her. Once you look at what three colors she is, Bant (Blue/White/Green) was obvious. She’s not Black or Red. She’s orderly and a scientist that studies natural phenomenon (mostly moons and their effects).

Her card was designed to be something centered in Blue but that touched upon overlaps with White and Green.

My ideal circumstance here would be for the gatewatch to come in, fail at saving the plane, but for innistrad to survive because of the local population alone.

Is it me or did taking thay oath make her less attractive. Or maybe its just the artist.