Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait by user4476699

Format: Commander

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic Landfall battlecruiser strategy commanded by Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. The primary plan accelerates mana during the opening turns using efficient ramp spells, mana dorks, and extra land drop effects like Exploration and Burgeoning. Once Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait enters the battlefield on Turn 4, each land played draws cards, creating a self-sustaining cycle of mana velocity and card advantage. On Turn 5, the deck establishes critical onset by deploying massive token swarms with Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, or Rampaging Baloths, or casting Cultivator Colossus. It finishes the table across Turns 6 and 7 through lethal combat damage. While the deck possesses explosive mana production, immense card draw, and fast recovery due to its resilient land base, it lacks interaction and defensive spells, carrying no countermagic or spot removal to disrupt opponents or shield its board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Broken Bond
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stone-Seeder Hierophant
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil
  • 1 Zimone, All-Questioning
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy