Nissa by Zacharoni22

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

The deck's strongest plan is the compact Demonic Consultation and Thassa's Oracle win. It has unusually strong access through Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Imperial Seal, and Mystical Tutor, backed by fast mana such as Mana Vault, Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, Lion's Eye Diamond, and Dark Ritual. A competent draw can assemble and use the combo around turn 3, with earlier wins possible from exceptional hands. The deck also carries a strong protection package, including Force of Will, Force of Negation, Fierce Guardianship, and Pact of Negation. Its main structural weakness is that many expensive creatures support the six-mana Nissa, Leyline Tamer landfall plan rather than the primary combo. That backup plan can generate cards and cheat creatures into play, but it is slower, less predictable, and does not replace the Oracle line's immediate win. The list is therefore a powerful general-level combo deck rather than a fully focused cEDH construction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills