His strategic value comes from his Fortune Hunter ability, which lets you search for the top four cards of your deck for an item upon play, combined with Put it to Good Use, which allows him to be played for zero ink by exerting four existing items
You won't always be able to get both Madam Mim and Fairy Godmother to stick on the board long enough to pull this off, but with their reduced Shift cost of three and two-ink respectively, you'll likely get both of them down on the board at the same time fairly often
Kinnan's first ability is a triggered mana ability
Shimmering Skies will follow a similar launch pattern to previous sets, with the initial release in local, specialist game stores set for August 9th and mainstream, mass market retail launch two weeks later on August 23rd
Its top end is a bunch of unimpressive vanilla cards like Li-Shang, Imperial Captain and Wise Friend, but they are at least all Heroes
The only Adventures in the set the land Adventures, such as Jidoor, Artistocratic Capital are made to be played as lands earlier on, and so dont feel like you have to cast both sides