A Khans of Tarkir Temur prerelease kit was my first experience of Magic Limited, so Ill be diving in pretty deep to this one
(2025-09-19) To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics
The additional mana Kinnan produces won't have any restrictions or riders
Some character adaptations failed to live up to expectations (looking at you The Tarrasque), but the dragon queen Tiamat made a glorious five-headed debut
This allows for shenanigans with any artifact that has built in cost reduction mechanics like Myr Enforcer or Metalwork Colossus, potentially turning a card that costs nothing into a defensive fortress like Darksteel Forge or a deadly finisher like Blightsteel Colossus for hilariously discounted rates
If you know you are going to run into a mill deck you are gonna wanna have at least one search card that will allow you to pull this card out of your deck and if your playing standard or modern then you can run 4 of these and could gain a staggering 39-40 life if you run the standard 20 mana but if any of those hit the graveyard than that gives you even more life and allows you to get our entire graveyard back to essentially start over laughing as your mill opponent decks out