Nissa's Encouragement
Sorcery
Search your library and graveyard for a card named Forest, a card named Brambleweft Behemoth, and a card named Nissa, Genesis Mage. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #25859
Nissa's Encouragement fetches a land, a Plains or Forest creature, and an Aura all in one shot — three cards for five mana is real card advantage when every piece has a destination. It's narrow by design, but in the decks that want it, the tutoring power is genuine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nissa's Encouragement is a Commander card through and through — the five-mana cost is acceptable in a 40-life multiplayer game where you're assembling a specific engine, and the triple-tutoring effect scales well when your commander is the creature you're suiting up. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, five mana to find three cards is too slow and too telegraphed; dedicated Aura strategies there prefer cheaper, proactive payoffs. Legacy and Vintage have access to the card on technicality, but there's no realistic shell that wants it over faster options. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 100 format where Nissa's Encouragement earns genuine consideration, since the planeswalker-plus-signature-spell structure rewards tight, targeted tutoring.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Nissa's Encouragement is bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. That price is unlikely to move unless a popular commander creates sustained demand, so picking up copies now costs almost nothing.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.