While WotC plays sort of loose with their planeswalkers, not trying to be too tied by cycle completion or number of apparitions, I think it is possible to make an educated guess about upcoming planeswalkers, especially from the next block.
For instance:
-We know that the "Lorwyn 5" are the main planeswalkers, the ones tasked to drive the stories as we go. From among them, Chandra is the one that has been away from the spotlight the longest... by far! She last appeared in Zendikar. Scars had none of the L5, Innistrad had Liliana and Garruk, RtR had Jace and Theros has Ajani. Chandra is badly overdue to make an appearance, so I believe is safe to pencil her down for the fall set. She'll very likely be red, though I wouldn't be too surprised by a RW Chandra.
-Everything seems to point that the fall set will be Warlords of Kahnar, a plane with a mongolian theme and likely Sarkhan Vol's home plane. He's also the "second wave" (Alara) PW that we haven't seen in the longest time -again, since Zendikar. (I don't count Nicol Bolas because I really don't expect to see him again in PW form ever again.) Sarkhan is Jund colours, meaning that if Chandra is monored, he could be BRRG or BG... I guess he could also be monoG or B or even BRG, but those sound more unlikely. BG sounds unlikely too, if we're getting a BG Garruk in M15, according to rumour and we just had Vraska too. I also doubt that he'll be RG following on the heels of Domri and Xenagos, leaving BR as the likeliest choice, which saddens me; I was expecting him to get better from his Bolas-induced madness. As such, he might be the "black" planeswalker of the block. Then again, he could be monoR, if Chandra is RW.
-Both green and black are sorely missing a third monocolour planeswalker, especially green, whose secondary character, Nissa, has only appeared once (twice, with M15, according to rumour). As such, I'd like to pencil in a new monogreen planeswalker.
-Since we're apparently getting Gideon again in M15, I don't expect any of our three monoW pws to make an appearance in there since both Ajani and Elspeth were just in Theros. I also find kind of unlikely that we'll get a 4th monowhite PW yet, so I believe that the white planeswalker is going to be multicolour, perhaps WU or WB, if not a RW Chandra.
-That leaves blue. We haven't seen Tezzeret in a while, but he seems to have little to do in the kind of plane that WoK sounds like. Tamiyo might make a return, though it seems almost too soon, especially since older pws, like Koth (who is out of the equation as red is most likely taken out by Chandra and/or Sarkhan) haven't made a single return yet. If we get a new WU pw, s/he might cover both blue and white for planeswalker for that block. If so, we might be looking at a new version of Liliana for black, if not a new monoB character.
I'm calling it right now- worst rare in the set. Even good limited players will find better bombs at common and uncommon no sweat. Worst. Episode. Ever.
I really do predict this to be our worst rare in set award winner. I'd be happier opening a jar of eyeballs, so I think anything worse is highly unlikely. This card wont just have zero constructed potential, but not be significantly better than a mass of ghouls in a draft.
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For instance:
-We know that the "Lorwyn 5" are the main planeswalkers, the ones tasked to drive the stories as we go. From among them, Chandra is the one that has been away from the spotlight the longest... by far! She last appeared in Zendikar. Scars had none of the L5, Innistrad had Liliana and Garruk, RtR had Jace and Theros has Ajani. Chandra is badly overdue to make an appearance, so I believe is safe to pencil her down for the fall set. She'll very likely be red, though I wouldn't be too surprised by a RW Chandra.
-Everything seems to point that the fall set will be Warlords of Kahnar, a plane with a mongolian theme and likely Sarkhan Vol's home plane. He's also the "second wave" (Alara) PW that we haven't seen in the longest time -again, since Zendikar. (I don't count Nicol Bolas because I really don't expect to see him again in PW form ever again.) Sarkhan is Jund colours, meaning that if Chandra is monored, he could be BR RG or BG... I guess he could also be monoG or B or even BRG, but those sound more unlikely. BG sounds unlikely too, if we're getting a BG Garruk in M15, according to rumour and we just had Vraska too. I also doubt that he'll be RG following on the heels of Domri and Xenagos, leaving BR as the likeliest choice, which saddens me; I was expecting him to get better from his Bolas-induced madness. As such, he might be the "black" planeswalker of the block. Then again, he could be monoR, if Chandra is RW.
-Both green and black are sorely missing a third monocolour planeswalker, especially green, whose secondary character, Nissa, has only appeared once (twice, with M15, according to rumour). As such, I'd like to pencil in a new monogreen planeswalker.
-Since we're apparently getting Gideon again in M15, I don't expect any of our three monoW pws to make an appearance in there since both Ajani and Elspeth were just in Theros. I also find kind of unlikely that we'll get a 4th monowhite PW yet, so I believe that the white planeswalker is going to be multicolour, perhaps WU or WB, if not a RW Chandra.
-That leaves blue. We haven't seen Tezzeret in a while, but he seems to have little to do in the kind of plane that WoK sounds like. Tamiyo might make a return, though it seems almost too soon, especially since older pws, like Koth (who is out of the equation as red is most likely taken out by Chandra and/or Sarkhan) haven't made a single return yet. If we get a new WU pw, s/he might cover both blue and white for planeswalker for that block. If so, we might be looking at a new version of Liliana for black, if not a new monoB character.