Nissa by Jared11797

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This four-color deck centers on Nissa, Leyline Tamer as an explosive engine that turns every first landfall trigger each turn into card advantage and a free creature from the library. The deck accelerates through early two-mana artifacts and utility creatures to cast its seven-mana commander by Turn 5. Topdeck manipulators like Brainstorm, Scroll Rack, and Sensei's Divining Top allow precise control over what creature is revealed. Cheating into play dominant Praetors and Angels—such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope—quickly strips opponents of resources while establishing an untouchable board. Combat finishers including Moraug, Fury of Akoum and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight rapidly convert this resource dominance into a table elimination across two combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Into the Fire
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Open the Omenpaths
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reinforcements
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zell Dincht