Reap the Tides (Precon) by user6371581

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Simic landfall and battlecruiser strategy commanded by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The primary game plan focuses on establishing early mana acceleration through 2- and 3-mana ramp spells and an exceptionally dense land base of 43 lands. Once Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait enters the battlefield on Turn 5, it unlocks an additional land drop per turn and converts every land into fresh card draw, ensuring a continuous flow of resources. The deck leverages this massive mana and card advantage to deploy overwhelming late-game threats on Turn 7, such as Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, and Stormtide Leviathan. These threats create wide token armies or asymmetric combat locks, closing the game through traditional combat damage over two subsequent attack steps. While the deck boasts immense card draw and robust recovery through sheer resource volume, its reliance on tapping out for high-mana spells and telegraphed combat steps leaves it vulnerable to opposing board wipes and fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 1 Ior Ruin Expedition
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Jungle Basin
  • 1 Khalni Heart Expedition
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Memorial to Genius
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Peel from Reality
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Seer's Sundial
  • 1 Sharktocrab
  • 1 Shipbreaker Kraken
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Simic Sky Swallower
  • 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Spitting Image
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Stumpsquall Hydra
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Trench Behemoth
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Vivid Creek
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Woodland Stream
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder