Nissa by user4684665

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck leverages Nissa, Leyline Tamer as a high-impact commander engine that converts ordinary land drops into card draw and free high-cost creatures. The mana curve is supported by 8 low-cost artifact ramp pieces and 10 fetchlands, enabling reliable color fixing across all four non-green colors. The primary strategy ramps into Nissa by Turn 5 or 6, immediately triggering her Landfall ability to deploy massive threats like Blightsteel Colossus, Void Winnower, and Eldrazi titans directly from the library without paying their mana costs. Dedicated evasion and damage multipliers such as Archetype of Imagination, Bedlam, and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight accelerate combat finishes over two subsequent turns. Interaction includes versatile removal like Farewell and Generous Gift, backed by creature protection from Mother of Runes, Pippin, Guard of the Citadel, and countermagic. If Nissa is unavailable, alternate outlets like Sneak Attack cheat titans directly from hand, sustaining lethal pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Aether Barrier
  • 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Declaration of Naught
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 4 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Kratos, God of War
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Xander's Lounge