Nissa by user6594026

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color big-mana strategy led by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The game plan accelerates through dense 2-CMC signets, talismans, and land-drop creatures on Turns 1 through 3 to deploy Nissa by Turn 5. Once on the board, any land entry triggers Landfall, drawing a card and putting the first revealed creature from the library directly onto the battlefield. The creature suite is heavily weighted with catastrophic high-mana payoffs including Blightsteel Colossus, Void Winnower, Avacyn, Angel of Hope, and It That Betrays. Topdeck manipulators like Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, and Brainstorm ensure that high-cost game-enders are placed directly on top of the library to cheat into play. The deck controls opposing tempos with efficient spot removal, low-cost countermagic, and attack taxes, before closing out the game through overwhelming combat damage and annihilator triggers across Turns 6 to 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patron of the Moon
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zell Dincht