Reap the Tide edited by Winstonthedawg6

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Simic Landfall and big-mana stompy strategy piloted by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana early with 1–3 CMC ramp spells and a generous 44-land base. Once Aesi enters the battlefield on Turn 4 or 5, every land drop replaces itself while accelerating resource development. The deck translates this card and mana surplus into large board states using mass token generators like Avenger of Zendikar and Rampaging Baloths, or disruptive sea monsters like Scourge of Fleets and Terastodon. Because the deck runs minimal instant-speed interaction and no nonland tutors, it relies on sheer card volume to overwhelm opponents rather than precision combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 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 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 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 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Woodland Stream
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder