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Nissa, Resurgent Animist
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · {2}{G} · Green commander
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.
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What Nissa, Resurgent Animist actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever 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
What a Nissa, Resurgent Animist deck needs
Plays as elemental typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- land ramp, extra land drops and fetch lands (two landfalls a turn dig for an Elf or Elemental)
- a light Elf/Elemental package worth finding
The Nissa, Resurgent Animist deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 12× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 6× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Nissa, Resurgent Animist
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- Exploration1 mana
- Explore2 mana
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
- Exploration Broodship1 mana
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Elvish Mystic1 mana
- Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
- Llanowar Elves1 mana
- Arbor Elf1 mana
- Bloom Tender2 mana
- Allosaurus Shepherd1 mana
- Boreal Druid1 mana
- Elvish Reclaimer1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Joraga Treespeaker1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Nissa, Resurgent Animist
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Nissa, Resurgent Animist is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Springheart Nantuko32,728 decks
- Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Springheart Nantuko32,728 decks
- Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Shifting Woodland + Aftermath Analyst + Sylvan Safekeeper16,946 decks
- Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Shifting Woodland + Aftermath Analyst + Zuran Orb14,167 decks
- Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Lumra, Bellow Of The Woods + Springheart Nantuko + Zuran Orb11,559 decks
- Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Dryad Arbor + Lotus Cobra + Springheart Nantuko10,016 decks