Best green planeswalkers in MTG

Nissa, Who Shakes the World may only have two activated abilities to offer, but her passive ability more than makes up for it. Whenever this planeswalker is on the battlefield, you can add an additional green mana any time you tap a Forest. That doubles the value of all your MTG lands – tasty.

Nissa’s -8 activated ability also offers more ramp potential. It gives you a permanent emblem that makes your lands indestructible, and you can search your library for any number of Forest cards. Then, you put them on the battlefield tapped.

Nissa only starts with five loyalty, so you’ll need to hit that +1 ability a few times to prepare for this. This gives you three +1/+1 counters to place on a non-creature land. It then becomes an Elemental creature with Vigilance and Haste, and it gets untapped.

This planeswalker isn’t a must-have for any particular MTG format, but it sees a wide spread of play (plus, that lack of demand means it’s nice and affordable). If you’re looking to build a mono green and/or a ramp deck, Nissa is a great option.

We still have a few more months before Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is rotated out of MTG Standard. So, if you’re looking for a green planeswalker for your Standard deck, Wrenn and Seven is the top option.

It’s not the most competitive card right now, but in the right deck, this planeswalker can still pack a punch. Wrenn and Seven has long been a Midrange darling, but more recent deck lists show its potential in ramp and MTG Mill decks, too.

Wrenn and Seven comes with four activated abilities, which offer a range of handy benefits. For +1, you can reveal four cards from your library, adding all revealed lands to your hand and placing the remaining cards in your graveyard. For 0 loyalty, you can add any number of land from your hand to the battlefield, tapped.

-3 lets you create a Treefolk creature whose power and toughness are equal to the number of lands you control, and -8 returns all cards from your graveyard to your hand. You also have no maximum hand size from now on – which can lead to some outlandish plays, if your opponent lets things get that far.

Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate lets you look at the top card of your library at any time. Nice! Even better is the card’s second passive ability, which lets you cast creature spells from the top of your library. It’s a handy way to get your creatures in play sooner, with no loyalty cost.

Speaking of loyalty, Vivien’s +1 is a handy way to keep her on the board, as it creates a 3/3 Beast creature token. This helps counteract her low starting loyalty slightly – though a determined opponent could still break through your defenses and wipe her out sharpish.

Still, those tokens are still worth having. You can choose to give them Vigilance, Reach, or Trample, which gives you a range of defensive and offensive options in battle.

Finally, there’s Vivien’s -2 ability. When you cast a creature spell on your turn, this lets you search your library for a creature with a lower converted mana cost. You can then put it straight on the battlefield.

Garruk, Primal Hunter is hard to keep alive thanks to his puny starting loyalty. But if you can hold onto this planeswalker, the payoff is pretty sweet.

Its -3 activated ability alone has a lot of value, allowing you to draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. If you’ve already played a 10/10 creature, the card advantage here is wonderful.

The -6/-6 ability might be even better, if you can reach it. This lets you create a 6/6 Wurm creature for every land under your control – which in green decks tends to be many.

Garruk comes with a pretty standard +1 ability, which creates a 3/3 Beast token to help defend him from incoming attacks. But with such useful abilities, you’ll probably need to invest a lot more resources if you want Garruk to stick around.

Nissa, Voice of Zendikar can make a huge impact with the right board state. If you’ve got a wide range of powerful creatures in play, her -2 ability can hugely strengthen your side of the battlefield. It gives every creature you control a +1/+1 counter – simple, yet effective.

Her +1 activated ability creates a puny 0/1 Plant token, which can be used to defend the planeswalker. Keep the card alive long enough, and its -7 ability lets you draw cards and gain life equal to the number of lands you control. This can be a major advantage.

Still, Nissa isn’t the most impressive planeswalker out there. And with only three starting loyalty, you’ll need to time her entrance perfectly to get the most out of the card.