Bounteous Kirin is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may gain life equal to that spell's mana value.
How it works : Bounteous Kirin
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If the Spirit or Arcane spell has
in the mana cost, then you use the value of on the stack. For example, Shining Shoal costs 
. If you choose X = 2, then Shining Shoal’s mana value is 4. Shining Shoal also has an ability that says “You may exile a white card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay Shining Shoal’s mana cost”; if you choose to pay the alternative cost and exile a card with mana value 2, then X is 2 while Shining Shoal is on the stack and its mana value is 4.No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Kiri-Onna + Ugin's Conjurant + Ezzaroot Channeler + Bounteous Kirin
- 1Cast Ugin's Conjurant, choosing to have X=2, but paying
due to Ezzaroot Channeler. - 2Bounteous Kirin and Kiri-Onna trigger.
- 3Resolve the Bounteous Kirin trigger, causing you to gain two life.
- 4Resolve the Kiri-Onna trigger, returning it to your hand from the battlefield.
- 5Cast Kiri-Onna by paying two life due to Ezzaroot Channeler and Defiler of Dreams.
- 6Defiler of Dreams triggers, causing you to draw a card.
- 7When Kiri-Onna enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ugin's Conjurant to your hand from the battlefield.
- 8Repeat.
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