Nissa's Expedition
Sorcery
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #9835
Nissa's Expedition puts up to three basic lands onto the battlefield tapped — real mana acceleration, not ramp that trades a card for one land. The catch is convoke: you're paying six mana or tapping creatures to discount it, which makes it a liability in decks that don't go wide.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
Emmara, Soul of the Accord generates a stream of tapped creature tokens just by being attacked with or tapping through other effects, so Nissa's Expedition arrives early and fat — convoke means those tokens do double duty as mana, and three lands off one spell keeps Emmara's engine running deep into the game.
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 Expedition is a Commander card, full stop. In a 100-card singleton format, the convoke discount is realistic — wide boards are common, and slamming three basics into play at once can represent a full turn of acceleration if you set it up correctly. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern or Legacy, a six-mana sorcery that finds basics is never the right call; faster and more consistent ramp exists at every point on the curve. Pioneer is the same story — Nissa's Expedition is legal but irrelevant. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer texture that wide-board decks there can use it, but the smaller deck size makes singleton basics thin out faster.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Nissa's Expedition sits firmly in bulk territory — it's an easy pickup without any financial friction. Bulk ramp spells rarely move off the floor unless a new commander pushes them into the spotlight, so don't expect this to appreciate, but you're never overpaying for what it does.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.