Nissa, Leyline Tamer by Kelcium

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck focuses on accelerating mana into Nissa, Leyline Tamer to cheat massive, game-ending creatures directly onto the battlefield via Landfall triggers. Using a dense package of 2-CMC signets, fetchlands, and Treasure generators such as Smothering Tithe, the deck ramps to 7 mana by Turn 5. Once Nissa resolves, any land entering the battlefield draws a card and puts the next creature from the library directly into play. The creature suite features heavy hitters including Blightsteel Colossus, Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, Void Winnower, and Archon of Cruelty, which rapidly shut down opposing interaction and dominate combat. While the deck possesses explosive mid-game power and high card flow, its reliance on a 7-mana commander and the presence of small utility creatures in the polymorph pool introduce slight variance and vulnerability to timely sweepers.

Decklist (105 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge