nissa by user9762773

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a non-green big-mana stompy strategy commanded by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The game plan focuses on deploying dense 2-mana artifacts and hitting land drops to cast Nissa on Turn 5. Starting on Turn 6, each land drop draws a card and cheats a massive creature from the top of the library directly into play. The creature suite includes format-defining bombs such as Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, Archfiend of Despair, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. The deck protects its setup using efficient removal like Swords to Plowshares and counterspells like Dovin's Veto. While the deck lacks creature tutors and relies on combat damage across multiple turn cycles to finish games, its ability to generate free board presence and card advantage every turn creates an overwhelming mid-game engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drawn from Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Wrath of the Bloodmane
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zell Dincht