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Heart of Kiran

Heart of Kiran

Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

Heart of Kiran wants a deck that plays lots of planeswalkers and keeps them safe. It also suits a deck that turns its Vehicles into creatures and attacks with them.

  • Mana cost2 generic
  • Colorless
  • Power / toughness4 / 4
  • RarityMythic

Flying, vigilance

Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

You may remove a loyalty counter from a planeswalker you control rather than pay Heart of Kiran's crew cost.

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Cards That Fit Heart of Kiran

Picked for what they do in Heart of Kiran's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Heart of Kiran's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Heart of Kiran

explain how Heart of Kiran works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 9 Feb 2017

Paying Heart of Kiran’s alternative crew cost isn’t a loyalty ability. It can be done even if you’ve already activated a loyalty ability of the planeswalker this turn, and it can be done any time you could activate Heart of Kiran’s crew ability.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

Any untapped creature you control can be tapped to pay a crew cost, even one that just came under your control.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

Creatures that crew a Vehicle aren’t attached to it or related in any other way. Effects that affect the Vehicle, such as by destroying it or giving it a +1/+1 counter, don’t affect the creatures that crewed it.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

Each Vehicle is printed with a power and toughness, but it’s not a creature. If it becomes a creature (most likely through its crew ability), it will have that power and toughness.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

For a Vehicle to be able to attack, it must be a creature as the declare attackers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to attack with it is during the beginning of combat step. For a Vehicle to be able to block, it must be a creature as the declare blockers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to block with it is during the declare attackers step. In either case, players may take actions after the crew ability resolves but before the Vehicle has been declared as an attacking or blocking creature.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

If a permanent becomes a copy of a Vehicle, the copy won’t be a creature, even if the Vehicle it’s copying has become an artifact creature.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

If an effect causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature with a specified power and toughness, that effect overwrites the Vehicle’s printed power and toughness.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

Once a player announces that they are activating a crew ability, no player may take other actions until the ability has been paid for. Notably, players can’t try to stop the ability by changing a creature’s power or by removing or tapping a creature.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

Once a Vehicle becomes a creature, it behaves exactly like any other artifact creature. It can’t attack unless you’ve controlled it continuously since your turn began, it can block if it’s untapped, it can be tapped to pay a Vehicle’s crew cost, and so on.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

Vehicle is an artifact type, not a creature type. A Vehicle that’s crewed won’t normally have any creature type.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

When a Vehicle becomes a creature, that doesn’t count as having a creature enter the battlefield. The permanent was already on the battlefield; it only changed its types. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield won’t trigger.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

You may activate a crew ability of a Vehicle even if it’s already an artifact creature. Doing so has no effect on the Vehicle. It doesn’t change its power and toughness.

Wizards of the Coast 29 Sep 2017

You may tap more creatures than necessary to activate a crew ability.

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