aesi? by user9700596

Format: Commander

Commander: Homer, the Hermit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Sultai Landfall Stompy build that functions predominantly as a Simic big-mana engine with a minor black splash for its commander, Homer, the Hermit. Rather than attempting to mill opponents with Homer's crab-scaling landfall ability, the list focuses on ramping aggressively into overwhelming battlefield presences. Dense low-cost land acceleration allows the deck to consistently deploy heavy landfall engines like Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, and Scute Swarm ahead of curve. Once established, multi-land ramp spells such as Harrow and Roiling Regrowth rapidly multiply token armies into lethal combat threats. While the deck possesses immense mana velocity and resilient recovery due to its untouchable land base, it lacks nonland tutors, fast mana, and comprehensive board protection. Consequently, it wins through resilient combat waves, leveraging mass bounce from Scourge of Fleets and Whelming Wave to clear opposing blockers and finish the game over multiple combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compulsion
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Homer, the Hermit
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 1 Ior Ruin Expedition
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Khalni Heart Expedition
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Memorial to Genius
  • 1 Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 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 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 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 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spitting Image
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Turntimber Sower
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Vivid Creek
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Woodland Stream
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder