Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa
+1: Create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
−7: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of lands you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4849
Nissa, Voice of Zendikar lands on turn three, immediately puts a 0/1 Plant token into play, and threatens to pump your whole board or draw three cards within a turn cycle — that's an outsized return on a three-mana planeswalker. Avid Reclaimer gives her a functional rate comparison, but Nissa laps it by protecting herself with chump blockers and scaling into a late-game anthem; Carth the Lion decks run her precisely because that loyalty clock moves fast enough to ult in two activations.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion's static ability means Nissa, Voice of Zendikar enters with five loyalty instead of three, putting her ultimate — draw three, gain three — one activation away on the very first turn she hits the battlefield.
Kirri, Talented Sprout
Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers off every Plant token Nissa, Voice of Zendikar creates, turning each +1 activation into a free draw and stacking counters on your board at the same time.
Phylath, World Sculptor
Phylath, World Sculptor already floods the board with Plant tokens off basic lands, and Nissa, Voice of Zendikar's −2 anthem converts that wide token base into a lethal alpha strike far earlier than opponents expect.
Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
Every Plant token Nissa, Voice of Zendikar generates triggers Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres's proliferate engine, accelerating counters across your whole board while Nissa simultaneously inches toward her own ultimate.
Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
Xavier Sal, Infested Captain rewards creature tokens at scale, and Nissa, Voice of Zendikar supplies a reliable one-per-turn drip of Plant tokens that keeps the incubation engine ticking through the mid-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 |
In Commander, Nissa, Voice of Zendikar earns her slot in any green deck that wants a low-cost planeswalker with immediate board presence — she protects herself, buffs go-wide strategies, and ultimates faster than most three-mana walkers. In Pioneer and Modern, she sees occasional fringe play in token-based midrange shells, but competes with a deep field of planeswalkers at the same cost and rarely makes the cut in top-tier lists. Legacy and Vintage are simply too fast for a three-mana do-nothing-at-instant-speed threat to matter. Oathbreaker is arguably her sweetest non-Commander home, where she can serve as the planeswalker commander herself and the signature spell restriction actually narrows the build in interesting ways.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Avid ReclaimerNissa, Voice of ZendikarFreed from the Real
Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Avid ReclaimerNissa, Voice of ZendikarPemmin's Aura
Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.