simic-like this by Volttronic

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Simic Landfall ramp and combo strategy commanded by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The primary game plan accelerates mana through low-cost land ramp spells and extra land drop enablers like Lotus Cobra, Three Visits, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove to deploy Aesi by Turn 4. Once Aesi is active, every land drop replaces itself, generating immense card velocity to dig toward game-ending finishers. The primary win condition leverages Tooth and Nail or raw draw power to assemble the infinite Landfall loop of Ashaya, Soul of the Wild and Quirion Ranger. This loop generates infinite mana and triggers to draw the entire library, closing the game on Turn 5 via Sylvan Awakening and Overwhelming Stampede. Alternatively, the deck can overwhelm opponents with massive token armies from Scute Swarm and Avenger of Zendikar while defending with Constant Mists and efficient countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Deprive
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Cultivation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jungle Basin
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Primal Command
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Sylvan Awakening
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 The Mending of Dominaria
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Undergrowth Recon
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zuran Orb