Well after reading that link that Barinellos posted (not sure which side he supports), it solidifies my feelings toward her being mainly Blue, I mean the only argument in that article that says she's Green is wanting to return to home, but I don't think that desire to return home would be considered any color really. I mean Elspeth is searching for a new home and she isn't green (Yet, she is from the Bant shard so that may change). It's not that I don't think Kiora can be U/G, it's just that when I see that card they came out with I think MonoBlue, that's all.
BTW here's another PW who seems mostly/all one color and not the other. Sorin, Lord of Innistrad. Lifelink is both a white and black mechanic (roughly equal, slightly more white), +1/+0 seems black (if it were +0/+1, that would seem more white), and the last ability is definitely black (although White does have some creature removal and revival). I'd say all those abilities could be considered black even though the abilities seemed to be based on mechanics that both white and black use frequently. It still could have been monoblack though and no one would have said a thing.
Sorin is white. He created an angel. He created an angel to save his home plane from consuming itself. If the Vamps had been allowed to continue what they were doing, then they would've hunted humans to extinction. So he created Avacyn to protect the humans so that his race would stay alive. As MaRo has said, BW takes White's support of all people and black's selfish support of the individual and combines them into caring for a select group of people. Sorin cares for the Vampires only. That's his only reason for making Avacyn.
From your post, you seem to have little regard for flavor and determine what color a Planeswalker's card should be just on its abilities, which is the exact opposite of the way Wizards makes them. Planeswalkers are made to be incarnates of flavor. If your argument for color assignment is going to be based on card effects only, and not flavor like it should be, then clearly you need to rethink your position. Wizards assigns the Planeswalkers a story, and then gives their card whatever colors their story supports.
Sorin is white. He created an angel. He created an angel to save his home plane from consuming itself. If the Vamps had been allowed to continue what they were doing, then they would've hunted humans to extinction. So he created Avacyn to protect the humans so that his race would stay alive. As MaRo has said, BW takes White's support of all people and black's selfish support of the individual and combines them into caring for a select group of people. Sorin cares for the Vampires only. That's his only reason for making Avacyn.
He really isn't and he really doesn't care about the vampires or else he would have been much much more proactive about changing their behavior.
Let's be clear that the reason he did what he did wasn't because he cared about the people, but because it was HIS world. It was a selfish motivation that drove him to take those steps, regardless if they had long term benefits for the humans and vampires. Because really, he doesn't like the vampires, he doesn't care for them at all. They disgust him, but it's his home that they were going to drive to extinction and even if he despises them, he'll do what he does for their own good if they like it or not.
It's a pure black motivation, but they just aren't willing to admit that black is capable of altruism even if it is for the most inherently selfish reasons.
(Yes, I know that's oxymoronic, but life is like that most of the time anyways...) They just don't want black to break the mold. Then again, Erebos is a thing.
I didn't say that the aforementioned Sorin card I said wasn't white, I if fact said it could be white/black but it could probably also pass as monoblack as well. Although to make my point even more clear, I think the W/B Sorin is more true to its abilities and flavor than Kiora is to the G aspects of hers abilities and flavor(lack-of).
BTW here's another PW who seems mostly/all one color and not the other. Sorin, Lord of Innistrad. Lifelink is both a white and black mechanic (roughly equal, slightly more white), +1/+0 seems black (if it were +0/+1, that would seem more white), and the last ability is definitely black (although White does have some creature removal and revival). I'd say all those abilities could be considered black even though the abilities seemed to be based on mechanics that both white and black use frequently. It still could have been monoblack though and no one would have said a thing.
From your post, you seem to have little regard for flavor and determine what color a Planeswalker's card should be just on its abilities, which is the exact opposite of the way Wizards makes them. Planeswalkers are made to be incarnates of flavor. If your argument for color assignment is going to be based on card effects only, and not flavor like it should be, then clearly you need to rethink your position. Wizards assigns the Planeswalkers a story, and then gives their card whatever colors their story supports.
When asking for if something was stolen on Kamigawa:
Have some irony:
He really isn't and he really doesn't care about the vampires or else he would have been much much more proactive about changing their behavior.
Let's be clear that the reason he did what he did wasn't because he cared about the people, but because it was HIS world. It was a selfish motivation that drove him to take those steps, regardless if they had long term benefits for the humans and vampires. Because really, he doesn't like the vampires, he doesn't care for them at all. They disgust him, but it's his home that they were going to drive to extinction and even if he despises them, he'll do what he does for their own good if they like it or not.
It's a pure black motivation, but they just aren't willing to admit that black is capable of altruism even if it is for the most inherently selfish reasons.
(Yes, I know that's oxymoronic, but life is like that most of the time anyways...) They just don't want black to break the mold. Then again, Erebos is a thing.