The equip costs are the biggest hurdle for equipment to function effectively, so getting this big reduction on them is great for any deck built around them
His best home is a Golgari Recurring Nightmare style deck where you have ramp and discard outlets to stop him being a liability in your hand
In an unusual twist of fate, six of these have since been certified as PSA 10 or Gem Mint with one of those selling for $60,000 in 2020
Nissa, Resurgent Animist is so powerful that it may become a staple in a Modern archetype
(Remember that the rules for ninjutsu specify that a creature that enters the battlefield attacking because of a ninjutsu ability attacks the same player or planeswalker the returned unblocked creature was.) Although the token is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example)
Double strike carries a lot of weight, and, in a rare case for Magic , here it's communicating this guy punching you with both of his enormous meat hooks