Nissa, Leyline Tamer by Sliverlord

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power non-green landfall and big-mana cheat deck led by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The core strategy focuses on accelerating mana through low-cost artifacts, fast mana, and land search during early turns to deploy the seven-mana commander on Turn 5. Once Nissa resolves, any land entry immediately triggers her ability, drawing a card and putting the top creature from the library directly onto the battlefield for free. The creature suite is packed with game-ending threats, including Blightsteel Colossus, Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. These threats apply immediate asymmetric locks and board suppression, while Silence, Teferi, Time Raveler, and free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Fierce Guardianship protect the board state. Opponents are rapidly overwhelmed by continuous combat damage and oppressive Praetor abilities, closing the game around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Absolute Virtue
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 City of Traitors
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darksteel Angel
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Ephemerate
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
• 1 Ghost Town
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 3 Island
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Manifold Key
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
• 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
• 1 Patron of the Moon
• 1 Phyrexian Fleshgorger
• 3 Plains
• 1 Plateau
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Roil Elemental
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scrubland
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Silence
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Steam Vents
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1 Terrain Generator
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Trade Routes
• 1 Tundra
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Volcanic Island
• 1 Walking Atlas
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Zuran Orb