Nissa, Leyline Tamer by Skinwalker

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive four-color Landfall Cheat and Stax strategy helmed by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The core game plan focuses on rapid early acceleration using low-cost mana rocks, fetchlands, and rituals to cast Nissa on Turn 4 or 5. Resolving Nissa and playing a land immediately triggers her landfall ability, cheating colossal Praetors and Eldrazi—such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Void Winnower, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope—directly onto the battlefield from the library. These threats immediately lock opponents out of resources, strip their hands, or disable their spells, creating an insurmountable resource disparity. The deck safeguards its setup with proactive silence effects like Grand Abolisher and Voice of Victory, while carrying a compact infinite landfall combo in Retreat to Coralhelm and Ruin Ghost alongside an Underworld Breach storm finisher to swiftly close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 2 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 Tataru Taru
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zell Dincht