Nissa, Resurgent Animist

Nissa, Resurgent Animist is a landfall engine that rewards you for playing lands repeatedly each turn. Every land drop triggers her ability, giving you ramp while setting up a second trigger that digs for Elves or Elementals. The core gameplan is to chain land drops—think fetches, token-generators like Scute Swarm, and effects that let you play extra lands per turn—to fuel both mana acceleration and card advantage simultaneously. You win by assembling a wide board of Elves and Elementals, then swinging in for combat damage, or by going off with a combo turn where you chain enough triggers to find your payoff cards (like card-draw Elves or anthem effects) and close out the game.

The deck thrives in a midrange shell with landfall synergies: cards that reward you for land drops (like Omnath, Locus of Creation or Scute Swarm), creatures that multiply lands (Tireless Provisioner, Tireless Tracker), and ways to replay lands from your graveyard or hand (Wrenn and Six, Tireless Tracker). You'll lean into ramp to hit your land drops, then pivot to payoffs that turn those lands into threats or card draw. This isn't a pure aggro deck—it's a snowball engine that gets exponentially better the more lands you play.

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