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Kinjalli's Dawnrunner

Creature — Human Scout2 generic manaWhite mana

Double strike on an explore body is a variance play dressed as a beater. The explore trigger fires the same coin-flip every time: hit a nonland off the top and the 1/1 becomes a 2/2 with double strike, a four-power swing; reveal a land and you put the card into your hand instead, keeping the body at 1/1 while the double strike sits inert. That fork is the whole design tension. Double strike wants a power buff more than almost any other keyword (each +1/+1 counter it lands is worth two on the board), and explore is one of white's few counter-generators, so the two mechanics are genuinely built for each other. But the payoff is gated behind whether your library cooperates, which is the discipline that keeps the double strike from becoming a free anthem the moment it resolves. The card rewards decks that can top off the counter later: any pump, any equipment, any second explore trigger turns the inert 1/1 into a real clock, because doubling small numbers scales fast. Left to its own devices it is a body that either replaces itself or grows once, then asks you to do the rest. As counters-matter design it is honest about what it is: a keyword that punishes small bodies, stapled to a mechanic that fixes small bodies, sold at the rate of neither one being reliable on its own.

Kinjalli's Dawnrunner (lci)
LCI · #19uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Double strike When this creature enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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