Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait by Isaachris1

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait commands a Simic landfall engine that turns every land drop into an extra card and an extra land. The deck's main plan is to ramp out Aesi, then use landfall triggers from token producers and landfall draw to accelerate into massive Serpents, Krakens, and Wurms, finishing with an Overwhelming Stampede. Secondary lines assemble Sakura-Tribe Scout plus Retreat to Coralhelm with Ghost Town or Simic Growth Chamber for infinite landfall and infinite tokens or treasures. Aesi is a value engine rather than a combo piece; the deck has enough extra-land redundancy and non-commander combos to keep functioning without it, though it loses much of its card velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broken Bond
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fog
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Oversimplify
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shriekwood Devourer
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Trygon Predator
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone's Hypothesis