Simic land stuff by PsychoWarper

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic Landfall ramp deck commanded by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The strategy accelerates mana development in the opening turns using efficient land-searching spells and additional land-drop enablers like Exploration and Nature's Lore. By Turn 4, the deck deploys Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait to establish a massive card-draw engine that triggers on every land entry while providing an additional land drop each turn. With superior mana velocity and hand replenishment, the deck transitions on Turn 5 into high-impact landfall payoffs such as Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Rampaging Baloths. These engines flood the board with an exponentially scaling army of creature tokens. Supporting utility pieces like Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, and Ancient Greenwarden turn the graveyard into a second hand for fetchlands and utility lands like Field of the Dead and Strip Mine. The deck protects its proactive board with cheap countermagic and shroud effects before closing the game via overwhelming combat damage around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Invigorator
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rimewood Falls
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 2 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 2 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thranduil the Strategist
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast