Nahiri, the Unforgiving
The compleat pip on the hybrid symbol lets you pay two life instead of mana, and doing so drops her onto the battlefield with three loyalty instead of five: speed bought against resilience. That gamble matters because nothing here is built to keep her alive. The first +1 can steer a creature away from her by forcing it to attack a player, whether yours or an opponent's, and the second is pure card filtering that also fills the graveyard she wants to raid. The zero ability is where the design closes its loop, reanimating a creature or Equipment as a hasty copy, capped at loyalty minus one and exiled at the next end step. Rush her out compleated and that ceiling drops with her loyalty, which is what the shortcut costs you. She reads as a reanimator, but she pays in tempo rather than permanence: each token swings once and vanishes, and the Equipment clause quietly opens a red-white recursion angle most graveyard decks never touch. She sits with the small class of planeswalkers whose graveyard interaction, not their protection or ultimate, defines how you play them. What separates her is the self-exile clause on that copy: it keeps her from grinding into a value engine, so instead of banking advantage she converts dead cards into damage on the turn she takes them.
Rules text
can be paid with , , or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature attacks a player each combat if able.
+1: Discard a card, then draw a card.
0: Exile target creature or Equipment card with mana value less than Nahiri's loyalty from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
