Nissa, Leyline Tamer by user9521322

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized battlecruiser and cheat strategy piloted by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The central game plan accelerates into its four-color, seven-mana commander to turn ordinary land drops into catastrophic board swings. Because the creature suite consists entirely of game-ending bombs, every initial landfall trigger reliably cheats a colossal threat—such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Blightsteel Colossus—directly from the library onto the battlefield while cantripping into more resources. Backed by efficient mana rocks like Sol Ring, Mana Vault, and Talismans, the deck achieves operational assembly and critical onset on Turn 5. It controls the tempo using free counterspells like Fierce Guardianship, uncounterable interaction like Dovin's Veto, and asymmetrical board wipes like Cyclonic Rift. Opponents face severe stax and attrition before being eliminated across two combat cycles by amplified damage from Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and extra combats from Moraug, Fury of Akoum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Show and Tell
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zell Dincht