Nissa Revane
Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa
+1: Search your library for a card named Nissa's Chosen, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
+1: You gain 2 life for each Elf you control.
−7: Search your library for any number of Elf creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $6.72
- EDHREC rank
- #14021
Nissa Revane staples a free Llanowar Elf to every activation and drains opponents for each Elf you control — the engine is immediate and scales hard. The catch is the Avid Reclaimer dependency: without other Nissa planeswalkers in the deck, she's doing the work of Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury at a fraction of the raw power.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury decks run Nissa Revane as a second copy of the same game plan — token generation, Elf synergies, and a life-draining ultimate that closes games the same way Freyalise's own -6 closes them.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Nissa Revane actually belongs — the 100-card singleton format lets her fit cleanly into Elf tribal builds without competing with four copies of better options. In Modern and Legacy she's legal but irrelevant; competitive Elf decks in those formats want creatures, not four-mana planeswalkers that die to a stiff breeze. Vintage has the same problem at higher speed. Nissa Revane is a Commander card in practice, and specifically a budget Commander card — she fills the Elf-token-plus-drain role in precon and budget builds that can't or won't pay for more powerful planeswalkers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Avid ReclaimerNissa RevanePemmin's Aura
Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Avid ReclaimerNissa RevaneFreed from the Real
Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the Avid Reclaimer restriction feels like too much bookkeeping, Imperious Perfect does the token-generation work at a lower mana cost and survives board wipes better as a creature. Nissa Revane edges it out in decks that want the life-drain reach, but Perfect is the cleaner drop if you just want bodies.
Price Context
Current price
$6.72 mid tier
At $6.72, Nissa Revane sits in mid-tier pricing — expensive enough that you're making a deliberate choice, cheap enough that it won't break a budget build. The price is stable given her narrow appeal; she's not going up, but she's not a bulk rare either.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.