Nissa 3 by AguyFox

Format: Commander

Commander: Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

Nissa, Leyline Tamer is the deck's central engine. The list uses fast mana and fetch lands to reach a seven-mana, five-color commander, then turns each landfall into a card and, once each turn, a free creature from the library. The creature package includes large enter-the-battlefield threats such as Archon of Cruelty, Avacyn, Angel of Horror, and Sheoldred, Whispering One, with Terror of the Peaks and Moraug, Fury of Akoum providing higher damage ceilings. The deck also has strong card engines in Necropotence, Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, The One Ring, and Black Market Connections. Its main weakness is that value does not become a deterministic kill. It can overwhelm a table with repeated free creatures, but random hits, removal, combat, and the need for more land drops leave opponents several response windows. The interaction and protection package is excellent for a general high-power deck, but the construction does not meet a competitive Commander profile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 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 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath