She has lower than average health, average mana gains with a slightly unbalanced spread, and low deck limits in Spells and Supports, with a strong focus on Creatures. She has good mana gains in her colors, and low gains in Green, descending one point at a time through Blue to a -1 to Black.

Her abilities have a creature buff theme, including permanently buffing all of her creatures, and temporarily giving an extreme {{Ability|Reinforce|Reinforcement}} buff to one creature. She also has a minor card draw and gem destruction ability. Her [[#Starting Deck|Starting Deck]] is entirely Common [[Origins]] cards.

<blockquote>''"“As Zendikar has bled, so will Innistrad. As I have wept, so will Sorin.”<br><br>Thousands of years ago, three Planeswalkers—NahiriPlaneswalkers—'''Nahiri''', [[Sorin,_Grim_NemesisGrim Nemesis|Sorin Markov]], and [[Ugin, the Spirit Dragon—worked Dragon]]—worked together to imprison the three Eldrazi titans on the plane of [[Battle_for_ZendikarBattle for Zendikar|Zendikar]]. They made a covenant to ensure that the Eldrazi, devourers of planes, were never again unleashed to threaten the Multiverse. Nahiri remained on Zendikar, her home plane, to keep watch as Ugin and Sorin carried on with their business on other planes. But after centuries the titans loosed their bonds enough to allow swarms of their spawn to emerge and decimate Zendikar. Nahiri waited in vain for her partners to help, but when neither Sorin nor Ugin arrived, she was forced to stop the threat on her own.<br><br>Concerned by Sorin’s absence, Nahiri traveled to [[Shadows_over_InnistradShadows over Innistrad|Innistrad]] to find him—and she was not seen again for thousands of years. Now at last she has resurfaced. Using her mastery of stone and earth, she created a vast pattern of twisted stone stretching across the four provinces. In some places—including Markov Manor, Sorin’s ancestral estate—she warped existing buildings into elaborate, gravity-defying patterns. In other places, she drew rock from the ground and shaped it to suit her purposes. But so far, no one can say what those purposes are."''</blockquote:>>[[Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients#Story|Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients' Story]]