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Nissa, Resurgent Animist

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout2 generic manaGreen mana

The trick is in the second resolution each turn. The first landfall trigger just fixes mana, any color, which is quietly useful for a green three-drop. It's the second land per turn that turns this into an engine: reveal until you hit an Elf or Elemental, hand delivered, the rest buried at random. That second-land threshold is the entire balancing act. On a normal curve it does nothing but ramp a single pip; the payoff only unlocks when your deck is built to churn out extra lands, and every card advantage it generates is metered by how reliably you can trigger landfall twice in a turn. It rewards fetch effects, land-per-turn engines, and cheap ways to drop a second land, then tutors your library into whatever Elf or Elemental keeps the loop going. The design lineage here is the land-driven value creature that pays you for a deck built around lands rather than one built around spells, and this card threads that with a tribal filter, so it doesn't just draw gas, it draws your gas, the specific creatures your board wants. A 3/3 body is almost incidental; nobody plays this to attack. What it represents is a green ramp payoff that stops being a mana dork and starts being a card-advantage machine the moment your manabase does the heavy lifting for you.

Nissa, Resurgent Animist (mat)
MAT · #122mythic
Pricing
Normal: $27.63
Foil: $26.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color. Then if this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an Elf or Elemental card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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