the version of Management Studio does not have any effect on what commands you run in it, that is solely determined by the version on the server.  I've regularly run commands against a SQL Server 2014 or 2016 instance from a 2008 Management Studio without problem even though I'm using features not in 2008.  The only side effect is that intellisense obviously would not recognize any new commands, functions, or language constructs, but they will run on the server.