big freebie by marineboone

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a non-green (WUBR) landfall and stompy engine helmed by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. Rather than relying on traditional green ramp, the deck uses low-CMC artifact rocks, rituals, and land-drop enablers like Walking Atlas and Ruin Ghost to assemble seven mana across four colors by Turn 5. Once Nissa resolves, any land entering the battlefield draws a card and triggers a free polymorph effect, cheating massive threats such as Blightsteel Colossus, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Archon of Cruelty, and Sire of Stagnation directly onto the battlefield. These threats establish immediate asymmetric board control and stax pressure, shutting down opposing enters-the-battlefield triggers and sweeping small creatures. The deck finishes games through heavy combat pressure over two subsequent attack steps by Turn 7. While vulnerable to stack countermagic and mass exile sweepers, its dense redundancy and independent hardcast capability provide strong midgame resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Dreamscape Artist
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Emeria Angel
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Koth of the Homestead
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nesting Dragon
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Patron of the Moon
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Trade Routes
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zell Dincht