You are right, I am ignoring the context of how Nissa plays in Standard. I don’t know how she plays in Standard, but I can imagine a context where she is good.

At the moment, I am working to understand her power level by comparing Nissa to the historical performance of Standard planeswalkers.

How are these obtuse arguments?

I think she’s great! Hard to say if we’ll see more than one or two copies in a given deck, but as Gerry T demonstrated the power is there.

Obviously a 4 is going to be more powerful than a three. You’re also ignoring that Nissa plays very well WITH Gideon. Your arguments here are rather obtuse.

Yes, these are the comparisons that suggest Nissa is powerful. One would say the exact same things about Gideon and be correct. What about comparing these two?

By the time you can make a 1/2 with Nissa, you are down to 2 loyalty. For 1 more generic mana, you get 4 loyalty and a 2/2 with Gideon. So, even a more contemporary comparison suggests Nissa might be a little under powered.

With the comparison to Ajani and now to Gideon, I have made arguments for why Nissa is under powered relative to other planeswalkers. I suspect we’ll see a price range of $5 to $10 before it sees $15 to $20 again.

Comparing 0/1 to 1/1 isn’t what matters here. Nissa makes a body. That’s huge. She actually builds towards something on an empty board and protects herself.

In a loose comparison, Nissa and Ajani have similar +1 abilities, but Nissa gives half the stats with an 0/1 instead of Ajani giving +1/+1. Nissa also starts with 1 less loyalty.

On both of these comparison, Nissa is inferior to Ajani, and Ajani was one that kept on disappointing me as it refused to show up to any large degree in Standard. I think Nissa has got further downside and I would be cautious on predicting a floor.