Aesei by user2115942

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Simic Landfall and Big Mana strategy led by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early ramp spells and mana elves to cast Aesi ahead of curve on Turn 4 or 5. Once Aesi is established, playing multiple lands per turn fuels massive card draw, digging deep into the library for game-ending landfall payoffs like Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Rampaging Baloths. On Turn 6, these threats create an explosive board presence of tokens that scale rapidly with subsequent land drops. Over the next two combat steps, the token swarm overruns the table, closing the game around Turn 8. While the deck boasts immense card advantage and resilience against single-target removal through land-based redundancy, its reliance on sorcery-speed creature combat leaves it vulnerable to sweepers during multi-turn attack rotations. Interaction is supported by flexible counterspells and bounce spells, maintaining a balanced, highly synergistic midrange engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acquire
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Eye of Jace
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Grazing Gladehart
  • 1 Greenhouse Propagator
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinder
  • 1 Hunter's Axe
  • 1 Inscription of Insight
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Kefnet the Mindful
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loot, the Nexus
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
  • 1 Once and Future
  • 1 Ondu Giant
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Plasm Capture
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Ruric Thar, Magecrusher
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Simic Sky Swallower
  • 1 Soratami Savant
  • 1 Spitting Image
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 1 Surveillance Phantasm
  • 1 Sylvan Awakening
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Telling Time
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Tragic Lesson
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Vastwood Surge