It's a bit of a different bent than the Vraskas and Garruk available to Golgari, but is an interesting mix of Nissa + reanimation. I'll probably at least take this for a test spin.
This Nissa seems pretty mediocre to me. Her +1 ability is essentially a bad Koth immitation in a less aggressive color combination, and her -5 is a steep cost that you can't even really "cheat" a Griselbrand into play unless you control 8 lands. I don't think her abilities mesh well since the first ability is aggressive leaning and the second ability is pretty midrange-y and expensive for what it is.
Vraska, Golgari Queen does everything I want a 4-cmc Golgari planeswalker to do, emo phase Nissa not so much. Safe pass for me at 540.
Can get up to 6 the turn you play it if played with a fetchland, and put up to a 5-drop into play with 2 +1/+1s, but I'm wondering which creatures really pay off with this.
Not a bad walker I think. It should tick up really fast. The +1 is fairly aggressive though it doesn't protect Nissa, and it can ramp you. The -5 can be quite powerful depending on what you have in your yard (or maybe hand).
Ramping with Elves? I guess you can swing once with a 3/3 on turn 3, and then next turn drop a beefy, uh Questing Beast I guess? She's like this aggressive, tempo-based walker that doesn't really get you value unless you've got a graveyard going. Doesn't sound like it plays well with our BG/x decks at all. I don't think she'd even crack my top 10.
She's decent, but Golgari is one of the tightest guilds in cube and likely has at least 2 better walkers. Unless your cube is really big, BG Nissa is a safe pass.
Reasonable assessments. I end up looking a little deeper than I feel others do because I purposely limit the quantity of removal spells I put in Golgari to 2, but that's separate from the issue that she's likely not better than existing walker options.
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StaffVraska, Golgari Queen does everything I want a 4-cmc Golgari planeswalker to do, emo phase Nissa not so much. Safe pass for me at 540.
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Ramping with Elves? I guess you can swing once with a 3/3 on turn 3, and then next turn drop a beefy, uh Questing Beast I guess? She's like this aggressive, tempo-based walker that doesn't really get you value unless you've got a graveyard going. Doesn't sound like it plays well with our BG/x decks at all. I don't think she'd even crack my top 10.
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