Nissa by MrTWEEKandGEEK

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Nissa, Leyline Tamer as a high-velocity cheat engine in a non-green four-color shell. The early turns focus on establishing mana through two-mana artifact rocks and fetching basic land types. Once seven mana is available on Turn 6, Nissa enters the battlefield and immediately triggers Landfall to draw a card and put a massive creature directly onto the battlefield from the library. Topdeck manipulation tools like Scroll Rack and Brainstorm ensure the best possible hits, while haymakers like Archon of Cruelty, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, and Magister Sphinx rapidly dismantle opposing boards. The deck reinforces this proactive strategy with asymmetric sweepers such as Tragic Arrogance and reanimation spells like Living Death to maintain board dominance and close games by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashen Rider
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Haunted Crossroads
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mythos of Snapdax
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 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 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thawing Glaciers
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth