Nissa, Layline Tamer 6 Oct by user7883498

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Landfall Polymorph strategy led by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The primary objective is accelerating mana through early signets and artifacts to deploy Nissa on Turn 5. Once on the battlefield, every land drop draws a card, and the first land drop each turn cheats a massive creature directly from the library onto the battlefield. The creature suite consists exclusively of high-impact bombs, including Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, Serra's Emissary, Avacyn, Angel of Horror, and Emrakul, the Exigent Doom. Backup polymorph enablers such as Mass Polymorph, Synthetic Destiny, and Proteus Staff ensure high redundancy by turning small creature tokens into game-ending threats. The deck protects its engine using cheap countermagic, free defensive spells like Flawless Maneuver, and haste enablers to close out games across two combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Blazing Archon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Countersculpt
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Impulsivity
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 1 Mass Polymorph
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Oath of Gideon
  • 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Synthetic Destiny
  • 1 The Eternal Wanderer
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Will of the Mardu