Nissa by MoshuaTheAverage

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized 4-color polymorph strategy helmed by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. By excluding low-cost utility creatures entirely from the 99, every landfall trigger from Nissa guarantees flipping into a massive 6-to-8 mana game-ending threat. The mana base runs 41 lands (including 21 fetchlands and panorama-style lands) along with 16 artifact ramp spells, ensuring consistent color fixing and acceleration into Nissa by Turn 5. Once operational, Nissa creates overwhelming card advantage and board presence each turn. Cheated payloads like Moraug, Fury of Akoum, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, and Archon of Cruelty provide combat power and attrition, while efficient 1-mana protection spells like Blacksmith's Skill, Dawn's Truce, and Clever Concealment keep the board safe from board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Admonition Angel
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Ashen Rider
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bant Panorama
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Grixis Panorama
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
  • 1 Jund Panorama
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminate Primordial
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Naya Panorama
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patron of the Moon
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Silver Surfer, Cosmic Voyager
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble