Nissa Lands by FinnThePenguin

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color battlecruiser stompy engine commanded by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The primary strategy focuses on aggressively deploying low-cost mana rocks and fetchlands during the opening four turns to establish all four colors (White, Blue, Black, and Red) and generate seven mana by Turn 5. Upon resolving Nissa, playing a land immediately triggers her Landfall ability, drawing a card and polymorphing into one of 24 massive bomb creatures from the library. By holding fetchlands and sacrificing them on opponents' turns, Nissa cheats additional lethal threats into play across the entire turn cycle. Payoffs like Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, Moraug, Fury of Akoum, and Archfiend of Despair amplify damage, allowing the deck to deliver lethal combat damage across all three opponents by Turn 7. If Nissa is answered, the dense mana curve enables hardcasting major titans without losing substantial tempo.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Admonition Angel
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bad River
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flood Plain
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Grixis Panorama
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mass Polymorph
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 1 Petrified Field
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Zell Dincht