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Nahiri, the Unforgiving
Legendary Planeswalker — Nahiri
mythic
Compleated ( can be paid with , , or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) +1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature attacks a player each combat if able. +1: Discard a card, then draw a card. 0: Exile target creature or Equipment card with mana value less than Nahiri's loyalty from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Loyalty: 5
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Attacks quickly and deals damage efficiently. Includes haste, double strike, first strike, prowess, and cards that grant these.
A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Creates copies of creatures, permanents, or spells.
Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.
Removes threats by exiling rather than destroying — bypasses indestructible and death triggers.
Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Draw-then-discard or discard-then-draw effects that improve hand quality without net card advantage.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
Planeswalker-heavy strategy — proliferate, Doubling Season, planeswalker synergies.
Creates creature tokens, Treasure tokens, Food tokens, Clue tokens, or other token types.
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Printings (6)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One#343 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One#364 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos#211s | mythic | · | · | · |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One#211 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos#211p | mythic | · | · | · |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One#471 | mythic | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
A keyword ability that causes a planeswalker to enter the battlefield with fewer loyalty counters if a player chose to pay life for Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost. See rule 702.150, “Compleated.”
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
The compleated ability looks only at whether a player chose to pay 2 life for a Phyrexian mana symbol as they were casting the spell. If a player paid life for some other reason while casting the spell, that will not reduce the number of loyalty counters the planeswalker enters the battlefield with.
The last loyalty ability will check Nahiri's loyalty as the ability tries to resolve to see if the target is still legal. If it's not, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. The card won't be exiled and no token will be created.
A hybrid Phyrexian mana symbol contributes 1 toward the mana value of a card, even if life is paid for it. Specifically, Nahiri's mana value is always 4.
Other replacement effects that would change the number of loyalty counters Nahiri enters with will apply as normal.
If the creature targeted by the first loyalty ability can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost. If they don't, it doesn't have to attack in that case either.