Kynaois and Tiro of Meletis plays up the group-hug angle while giving you a card to help you maximize the extra land drops
If an effect refers to a color pair, it means exactly two of the five colors
Other than adding +1 to the maximum theoretical Gate count for decks that care about the land type (and to be fair, they tend to REALLY care), this is more or less just black Rogues Passage
However, when it isn't on the battlefield, the card is still always seen as the Saga side, even if it has transformed
Since Magic was first developed by Richard Garfield, a 15-card booster was his vision, Rosewater said, years before designing for Draft was even a thing. With a chance to rethink that number, R&D settled on a play booster containing 14 cards because that number did the best job of giving us the play experience we wanted. The change from 15 to 14 playable cards in a booster impacted future set designs as well, as with one fewer common slot, R&D adapted by making less unusable commons, at least from a Limited perspective
The pre-release events for this set were held on January 19 and January 20, 2008