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Nissa, Genesis Mage

Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa

+2: Untap up to two target creatures and up to two target lands.
−3: Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.
−10: Look at the top ten cards of your library. You may put any number of creature and/or land cards from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{5}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Hour of Devastation
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#14853
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Nissa, Genesis Mage untaps five lands and a creature the turn she resolves, generating immediate value before opponents can answer her — that's the pitch. The problem is the seven-mana price tag, which means she lives or dies by how fast your deck can accelerate, and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is the clearest illustration of her ceiling: double loyalty counters mean her minus abilities become available almost immediately, and The Sixth Doctor style value engines love the land-untap effect to reuse tap effects at scale.

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Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider doubles the loyalty counters Nissa, Genesis Mage enters with and accrues each turn, letting her hit her minus abilities on the same turn she arrives — that acceleration turns a slow planeswalker into an immediate threat rather than a setup piece.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Nissa, Genesis Mage is a Commander card through and through — seven mana is a non-starter in Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, where the game is typically decided before she could ever resolve. In those formats she's legal but irrelevant. Commander is where the math works: ramp is expected, the game goes long, and a planeswalker who untaps five lands on entry can generate the kind of mana surplus that closes games. Oathbreaker is a plausible home too, where she can serve as the planeswalker commander herself in a shell built entirely around her abilities.

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Price Context

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Pricing data for Nissa, Genesis Mage isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given her narrow competitive applicability and Commander-specific role, she tends to sit in budget-to-mid range territory — worth picking up if you're building a deck that specifically wants her, but not a staple you need to acquire speculatively.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.