Nissa by JChigiChapel

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 64

Deck overview

This four-color deck uses Nissa, Leyline Tamer to transform ordinary land drops into card advantage and free high-impact creatures. By pairing a dense suite of 1–2 CMC mana rocks and fetchlands with topdeck manipulation spells like Brainstorm and Sensei's Divining Top, the deck rapidly ramps into Nissa on Turn 5. Once on the battlefield, Nissa's Landfall ability immediately cheats game-warping Praetors and Elder Demons directly onto the board. Cards such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater strip opposing resources, wipe utility creatures, and lock down spells. Backed by efficient 1-mana countermagic, free protection spells like Flawless Maneuver, and asymmetric board wipes like Ruinous Ultimatum, the deck suppresses opponent interaction while rapidly converting massive flying beaters and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen landfall triggers into a dominant Turn 8 table elimination.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 3 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 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zell Dincht