Magic: The Gathering's planeswalker Nissa, Ascended Animist, brings overwhelming win condition to Phyrexia All Will Be One
Magic: The Gathering’s next expansion has some of the most popular planewalkers turning to the forces of evil. Though not by choice, Nissa has become Compleated with some of her former Gatewatch allies. Like other Phyrexian planeswalkers, Nissa, Ascended Animist, is incredibly powerful. However, she might be the strongest of them all.
All of her abilities are terrifying, and though she has a high casting cost, you can simply play her for the full mana value and end games, depending on the board. What will she bring to Magic: The Gathering next month?
Nissa in Magic: The Gathering has always been an incredibly powerful planeswalker, but this might be the strongest form of the character yet. Though she costs a whopping seven mana, two of which are Phyrexian mana, you must unveil her at full cost for maximum effect.
You can play her for five mana, for the cost of four life. However, this also means she goes from seven loyalty to three. This makes it so much easier to defeat her with direct damage spells. At least you can easily use her up-tick at each turn to continually generate creatures. But what does she do?
Nissa’s +1 synergizes perfectly with her -7. You can make a constant flow of stronger creatures, while simultaneously playing with big green ones. Since she’s almost going to be played in a mono-Green deck, taking her out will give your creatures a minimum of +7/+7 for the turn.
If you use this on a deck with mana ramp, that number could easily skyrocket. Depending on the deck you’re running in Magic: The Gathering, you could be giving your creatures +15/+15, and smashing through any defense.
That’s what makes her so dangerous. Instead of making her Forests combatants, like the previous iteration of Nissa, she channels
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