Serpent's Landfall by Ciderryan

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Simic Landfall and Sea Monster stompy strategy led by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The primary game plan is to accelerate mana during the early turns using spells like Rampant Growth, Cultivate, and Growth Spiral, taking advantage of a high 44-land density to avoid missing land drops. On Turn 5, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait enters the battlefield, immediately drawing extra cards and enabling multiple land plays each turn. This massive card flow fuels expensive high-impact threats on Turn 6 and beyond, including Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, Stormtide Leviathan, and Through the Forest Gate. The deck controls opposing creature boards with one-sided bounce spells such as Whelming Wave and Scourge of Fleets, clearing paths for lethal combat attacks over several turns. While the deck generates overwhelming mana and card advantage, its win condition depends entirely on combat damage, making it vulnerable to sweepers 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 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Famished Worldsire
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Jungle Basin
  • 1 Khalni Heart Expedition
  • 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Memorial to Genius
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Natural Connection
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Oran-Rief Hydra
  • 1 Peel from Reality
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 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 Sporemound
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mending of Dominaria
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Trench Behemoth
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Vivid Creek
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Woodland Stream
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder