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Nissa, Resurgent Animist

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout

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.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine: The Aftermath
Price
$27.31
EDHREC rank
#2057
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Nissa, Resurgent Animist card art
Nissa, Resurgent Animist lands and immediately fetches an Elf or Elemental from your library, then turns every subsequent land drop into another free creature — that's an engine stapled to a body, not a slow value piece. The cost of admission is real synergy requirements, but in shells built around Springheart Nantuko or Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, she pays for herself the turn she enters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.47

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods triggers on land drops, and Nissa, Resurgent Animist turns every one of those land drops into an additional creature fetch — the two abilities stack into a self-reinforcing value loop that makes Lumra's landfall payoffs arrive faster and more often.

02
Omnath, Locus of the Roil

Omnath, Locus of the Roil

28.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Omnath, Locus of the Roil wants a critical mass of Elementals to fuel its damage trigger, and Nissa, Resurgent Animist fetches an Elemental on entry and keeps feeding the tribe with every land that follows.

03
Omnath, Locus of Creation

Omnath, Locus of Creation

25.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Omnath, Locus of Creation rewards you for landing multiple land drops per turn, which is exactly when Nissa, Resurgent Animist shines — each additional land triggers Nissa and triggers Omnath, compounding both card advantage and life gain simultaneously.

04
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

21.6% of decks · synergy 0.17

Azusa, Lost but Seeking gives you the extra land drops that Nissa, Resurgent Animist needs to chain fetches, so the two effectively act as the same engine: Azusa enables the volume, Nissa converts it into creatures.

05
Karametra, God of Harvests

Karametra, God of Harvests

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

Karametra, God of Harvests puts lands directly into play whenever you cast creatures, which feeds Nissa, Resurgent Animist's landfall trigger in reverse — cast a creature, get a land, get another fetch off Nissa, then cast that creature and repeat.

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

Commander is the native home for Nissa, Resurgent Animist — the format's slower pace gives her landfall engine room to compound over multiple turns, and the deep Elf and Elemental tribal pools mean the fetch trigger almost always finds something relevant. In Modern and Pioneer, she's legal but competes with faster threats for a three-mana slot that demands immediate board impact, and most landfall-adjacent shells there prefer payoffs that close games rather than build value. Legacy is technically open, but the format moves too fast for a three-mana creature that doesn't win on the spot. Oathbreaker is the sleeper home — as a planeswalker-adjacent design, she fits naturally in aggressive land-based spellslinger builds.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

8,758 decks
Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoZuran OrbNissa, Resurgent Animist

Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoZuran OrbNissa, Resurgent Animist

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Azusa, Lost but Seeking costs less and provides the raw land drops that make Nissa, Resurgent Animist's engine tick, though she skips the creature-fetch payoff entirely and asks you to supply your own draw engine. Coiling Oracle and Risen Reef each convert land or creature triggers into card advantage at a fraction of the price, but neither scales with land drops the way Nissa does — you're trading compounding value for reliable single-shot effect.

Price Context

Current price

$27.31 premium tier

At $27.31, Nissa, Resurgent Animist sits firmly in the premium tier — justified in dedicated landfall and Elemental/Elf tribal decks where she functions as a engine piece rather than a role-player, but hard to justify in decks that only incidentally trigger landfall. The price reflects genuine demand across multiple archetypes, so it's unlikely to crater without a widespread reprint.

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