Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis gates by user7105603

Format: Commander

Commander: Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a four-color lands-matter deck helmed by Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis, built around a dense package of extra-land-drop effects, landfall draw, and a Gates subtheme. The primary game plan is to ramp aggressively with Exploration, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, and friends, converting each land drop into cards through Tatyova, Benthic Druid and Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The deck wins primarily through Maze's End, tutoring and playing ten differently named Gates, with Approach of the Second Sun as a backup. A group-hug shell (Howling Mine, Rites of Flourishing, Kwain, Itinerant Meddler, Master of Ceremonies) accelerates the whole table but feeds the deck's landfall engines disproportionately. Light stax pieces - Lavinia, Azorius Renegade, Boromir, Warden of the Tower, Possibility Storm, Knowledge Pool - slow opponents while the land engine grinds toward the finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azorius Guildgate
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Baldur's Gate
• 1 Basilisk Gate
• 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1 Boros Guildgate
• 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1 Broken Bond
• 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Circuitous Route
• 1 Citadel Gate
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cliffgate
• 1 Collective Voyage
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Deserted Temple
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Druid Class
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Elvish Reclaimer
• 1 Everybody Lives!
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expedition Map
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 7 Forest
• 1 Gateway Plaza
• 1 Ghirapur Orrery
• 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
• 1 Gond Gate
• 1 Gruul Guildgate
• 1 Heap Gate
• 1 Heartbeat of Spring
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Horizon Explorer
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Intergalactic Wrestling
• 1 Izzet Guildgate
• 1 Knowledge Pool
• 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• 1 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
• 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Magus of the Vineyard
• 1 Mana Flare
• 1 Manor Gate
• 1 Master of Ceremonies
• 1 Maze's End
• 1 Navigation Orb
• 1 Nylea's Intervention
• 1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pir's Whim
• 1 Planar Nexus
• 1 Plaza of Harmony
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Realms Uncharted
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rings of Brighthearth
• 1 Rites of Flourishing
• 1 Rootweaver Druid
• 1 Sage of the Maze
• 1 Scapeshift
• 1 Sea Gate
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Selesnya Guildgate
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Show and Tell
• 1 Simic Guildgate
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Scrying
• 1 Talon Gates of Madara
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Tempt with Discovery
• 1 Tempt with Mayhem
• 1 The Second Doctor
• 1 Thran Portal
• 1 Through the Forest Gate
• 1 Tiller Engine
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Vesuva