tom foolery by antholord21

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

Nissa, Leyline Tamer commands a high-synergy 4-color battlecruiser deck designed to cheat devastating, high-cost creatures into play through landfall triggers. The deck uses a dense package of two-mana artifacts, rituals, and land enablers to accelerate into its 7-mana commander by Turn 5. Once Nissa enters the battlefield, any land drop immediately draws a card and puts the top creature from the library directly onto the battlefield. The creature pool is packed with game-ending threats including Blightsteel Colossus, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope. A robust suite of efficient countermagic, free removal like Deadly Rollick, and protection spells like Flawless Maneuver defend the engine during critical turns. If Nissa is answered, the deck easily pivots to hardcasting its heavy curve using its abundant mana base. The deck consistently overwhelms opponents across two combat rotations to close the game by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zell Dincht