MTG Salvation

In this video from Pro Tour Berlin Coverage, we see BDM and Randy Buehler trying out the new demo for Duels of the Planeswalkers.
After 1 minute, we see that among the planeswalkers you can play against there is Nissa Revane, a new planeswalker who was just announced for the game. She seems to be :symbg:, but we don't know much more.

Do you think it will get printed or it's just for the game?

Interesting. Note that she's not in the list of cards from Conflux. Perhaps she's the Alara Reborn PW

Nissa Revane sure has a lot of letters in common with Liliana Vess (all letters in common capitalized):

NISSA rEVAne
lilIANA VESS

Exact same number (11) of letters in the two names, and the two names, except for three letters ("enr" and "ill", respectively) are anagrams.

The Nissa-Revane-is-Liliana-Vess-in-disguise/Liliana-Vess-reborn/Liliana-Vess's-twin-sister conspiracy/speculation theories begin...

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Interesting. Note that she's not in the list of cards from Conflux. Perhaps she's the Alara Reborn PW

Which isn't surprising; rule of three pretty much confirms 'Walkers in Reborn.

I'm wondering it this means each color pair will see a 'Walker before the end of it, or are they not even going to bother distributing them evenly?

Can anyone make out the description on the left? I can make out a few words ("graceful" "she follows her people"), but not everything. I figure it might give us a better indication of her character and therefore what her (hypothetical) card may be like.

she looks straight green to me. but as far as i can see. her "description" is very hard to make out. since i dont have any video editing software, and the fact that thier camera man really bites. i cant really make it out. but she looks to almost be like Garruk's Sister? at least green-ish in the same meaning as he is.. also, she does play swamps, but that doesn't nessicarily mean much. however it could be a hint towards her being G/

It looked like to me that both the Green and the black parts where colored in making her green/black. The thing is, not all of the planeswalkers on that list are from Shards so she might be from the next block. She could even be a video game exclusive planeswalker made just for that game. You really could read alot into what that guy was saying and his accent didn't help much.

Nissa is definitely G/B. Her symbol looks to me like it has the black part filled in (although I admit it's tough to tell with black on a black background), and she plays Swamps in her deck. Plus Garruk is there and I don't see the point in having two mono-Green walkers.

All I can make out in her description is:

... - ?nimble?, graceful, and
... jungle to be not just the
... of the natural world,
... Her allies are a ?vast?
...

I'm pretty sure that in the video they say she's exclusive to the 360 game.

Can anyone figure out if she's on the big art behind them while they talk?

Jace's deck was mono-blue (and unavailable because Memory Erosion was in it) at PAX.

To give more cannon-fodder to the conspiracists, clearly she's Garruk's and Liliana's lovechild. Garruk was supposed to be "hunting" Liliana, if I recall correctly.

Cool

Also, I didn't know Elspeth's last name before.

Now I really can't wait for conflux.

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To give more cannon-fodder to the conspiracists, clearly she's Garruk's and Liliana's lovechild. Garruk was supposed to be "hunting" Liliana, if I recall correctly.

Yes, interesting idea. That would explain why her colors are B/G.

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Yes, interesting idea. That would explain why her colors are B/G.

And to seal the deal, I'll say that "Revane" is Vess's maiden name.

Nissa on Wikipedia says:

• Nissa, a feminine name of Scandinavian origin ("a friendly elf")

EDIT: I joined up the body of the poster behind them when they were talking with the avatar at the character selection screen. The resolution isn't that good though.

I do believe that when the guy was talking he mention Nissa being an EXCLUSIVE... But it could be that its 130ish in the morning and I've been up for too many hours. But I do believe that the word exclusive was there and that she wont see print.

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I do believe that when the guy was talking he mention Nissa being an EXCLUSIVE... But it could be that its 130ish in the morning and I've been up for too many hours. But I do believe that the word exclusive was there and that she wont see print.

It was immediately followed by the words 'for now...', if I remember correctly.

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I'm sorry but how do you know he's playing with Nissa's deck? The face in the lower right corner is not Nissa IMO, it looks like Radha, Heir to Keld.

The battle is between Jace and Radha. If you look when the video zooms in you can clearly see her sword in her right hand resting across the back of her neck. You can even see the blood on her cheek.
This tells me that either you travel around and can battle against major figures of the different worlds or Radha gets a spark.

If you watch the game it looks like she has tribal elves, I saw Coat of Arms, Farhaven Elf, Elvish Visionary, and Moonglove Winnower.

She also played Gaea's Herald

Aside from that it would be interesting to see what they will do for the enemy colored PWs.

Looking at the blurry pictures we have of her, as well as the cards she plays, I'd say that she's an Elf. It's hard to tell in the photo, but she could even be a Lorwyn elf; the cut-off on the photo doesn't show if she has horns or not. Her colors at least would support that notion.

I played the demo at Berlin. The avatar you happen to choose doesn't matter to the deck you have, but one of the preset decks is the Elf deck you happen to see played.

I talked with the programmers etc and they confirmed that Nissa is confirmed as exclusively created for the game. They also had some limited edition stickers to cover your entire 360 with Nissa and the mana symbols; I'll see if I can get you guys a picture once I've applied it to my 360.

Would nobody be willing to scan the stickers before applying them to a XBox 360?