Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Springheart Nantuko

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Overview

When you put a land onto the battlefield, both Nissa, Resurgent Animist’s and Springheart Nantuko’s landfall abilities trigger; you put those triggered abilities on the stack in any order and resolve them normally, so you can choose to resolve Nissa first to generate mana to pay Nantuko’s optional when Nantuko’s trigger resolves [603.2] [2024-11-08].

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Step 1

You play a land (a special action); that land entering the battlefield causes each permanent you control with "Whenever a land you control enters" landfall abilities to trigger [305.1] [603.2].

Step 2

Both Nissa’s and Springheart Nantuko’s landfall triggers are created; you (the controller) put them on the stack in any order you choose [2024-11-08] and then players receive priority as normal [603.3].

Step 3

If you put Nissa’s landfall trigger on the stack above Nantuko’s, Nissa’s trigger resolves first, and it will add one mana of any color to your mana pool as part of its effect when it resolves; because Nissa’s is not a triggered mana ability that triggered from activating a mana ability, it is a normal triggered ability that goes on the stack and resolves normally [605.1b] [603.3].

Step 4

After Nissa’s trigger resolves you have the newly added mana in your mana pool, and then Nantuko’s trigger can resolve; when Nantuko’s trigger resolves you may pay if Springheart Nantuko is attached to a creature you control — you can use the mana just added by Nissa to pay that cost if you like.

Step 5

If you pay Nantuko’s , Nantuko’s trigger creates a token that’s a copy of the creature it was attached to (for example, a token copy of Nissa). If you don’t pay, you create a 1/1 green Insect token instead.

Step 6

Creating a token copy of Nissa (or any creature) does not retroactively count as a second resolution of Nissa’s landfall for the land that just entered; Nissa’s 'second time this ability has resolved this turn' check applies to how many times Nissa’s own landfall ability has resolved earlier in the turn, not to other effects creating copies now [2023-05-12].

Resolution

Both landfall abilities trigger and go on the stack (you choose order) [603.2] [2024-11-08]; Nissa’s landfall is a normal triggered ability that resolves on the stack and will add one mana when it resolves (it is not a triggered mana ability under [605.1b]), so if you put Nissa’s trigger on the stack above Nantuko’s you’ll get that mana before Nantuko’s trigger resolves and can use it to pay Nantuko’s optional ; if you pay Nantuko’s cost when its trigger resolves you create a token copy of the creature Springheart Nantuko was attached to (for example, a token copy of Nissa), and creating that token does not retroactively affect the resolution count of Nissa’s landfall for that land-play event [603.3] [605.1b] [2023-05-12].