Nissa Paper by user3418084

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Big Mana Landfall strategy commanded by Nissa, Leyline Tamer. The primary game plan focuses on utilizing efficient 2-CMC mana rocks and land ramp to accelerate into Nissa by Turn 5. Upon entering, an immediate land drop triggers Nissa's landfall ability, drawing a card and cheating a massive game-ending creature directly from the library onto the battlefield. The creature suite features devastating threats including Blightsteel Colossus, Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, Archon of Cruelty, and legendary Eldrazi. While the commander serves as the primary deployment engine, the deck also includes a backup infinite landfall engine with Retreat to Coralhelm and Ruin Ghost. Defensively, the deck protects its high-impact board with free interaction like Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, and Flawless Maneuver, while controlling opposing tempo through premier spot removal and asymmetric praetor effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dreamscape Artist
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Index
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patron of the Moon
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 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 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave