Obviously then, we don’t need a green card for our fixing, right? Yes, I am including the Farseek/shockland/buddy land environment of Innistrad/Return to Ravnica Standard in that list. The mana in this Standard environment is better than at any time since Alara block. She’s making it easier to find her some friends! That last ability is being dismissed in many corners as irrelevant, but it’s actually one of my favourite parts of the card. That ability on Ajani was widely considered the best one of the three, and having it isolated in the form of a one-mana enchantment suggests that we want to be looking hard at Oath of Nissa.įortunately, Nissa isn’t swearing an oath to stop there. What’s that? Okay, I suppose we can hit Silumgar Assassin too, but that’s sadly not very relevant.Ījani, Mentor of Heroes basically let us do the same thing as a +1 ability on a five-mana planeswalker, trading enchantments for lands. The argument that we can’t find removal is only partially true, as we can hit both Den Protector and Hidden Dragonslayer. We might even do both if we’re finding a Lumbering Falls or Hissing Quagmire. In the (unlikely) event that we’re not digging for a second land, we’re finding a threat.
I’m notoriously bad at mulligan decisions, and having a solid way to find my third (okay, it’s probably my second I told you I was bad at this) land while also being able to dig me out of the five-land keeps I seem to enjoy would be a boon. Put the remaining cards on the bottom of your library in any order.” It’s not a great card, but it’s definitely playable. You may reveal a creature, land, or planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. I’m not going to lie to you I’d probably play a green sorcery that said “Look at the top three cards of your library. Gideon has sworn an impressive Oath himself, but Nissa’s is by far my favourite. Everything down to the flavour text is just perfect, and giving them all enters-the-battlefield abilities makes us feel less miserable when we draw the redundant copy. Let me start by saying how much I love the entire Oath cycle. I’m now That Guy who gets excited about preview cards with no context. I broke my own rule last week with Chandra and Reflector Mage, and now here we are again breaking it over a one-mana enchantment and a Mistmeadow Witch variant. Cards like Ojutai’s Exemplars Drana, Liberator of Malakir and Kytheon, Hero of Akros have all shown us in recent history that the early hype often peters out. During preview season I generally prefer to absorb as much as possible before starting to gush over new cards, especially when we have seen less than half of a new set. The problem with having rules for yourself is that you feel bad when you’re forced to break them.