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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait · GU · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 38Instants 12Sorceries 7Artifacts 1Enchantments 2Lands 39
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Strategy
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting extra lands onto the battlefield and getting paid for each one. The list holds 24 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 3 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 4.08.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Azusa, Lost but Seeking and the other 24 ramp pieces exist to get Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait out well before its printed cost of 6 would allow.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Counterspell is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Tatyova, Benthic Druid keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Cyclonic Rift for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 3 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 4.08 average mana value the top end is genuinely expensive - land drops matter.
Win conditions: Wins off the accumulated value of extra land drops.
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking - Ramp
- Lotus Cobra - Ramp
- Ramunap Excavator - Core to the plan
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid - Card draw
- Rampaging Baloths - Core to the plan
- Scute Swarm - Core to the plan
- Avenger of Zendikar - Core to the plan
- Ancient Greenwarden - Core to the plan
~$480.87
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
Legendary Creature — Serpent
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.
Creatures (38)
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
Legendary Creature — Human Monk
$11.77
You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.
Lotus Cobra
Creature — Snake
$6.03
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.
Ramunap Excavator
Creature — Snake Cleric
$4.79
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Druid
$0.19
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Rampaging Baloths
Creature — Beast
$0.28
Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.
Scute Swarm
Creature — Insect
$8.37
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.
Ancient Greenwarden
Creature — Elemental
$12.18
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
You may play lands from your graveyard.
If a land entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Tireless Provisioner
Creature — Elf Scout
$2.32
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Oracle of Mul Daya
Creature — Elf Shaman
$1.98
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
Enchantment Creature — Nymph Dryad
$9.39
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
Meloku the Clouded Mirror
Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard
$0.8
Flying
{1}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman
$0.34
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Legendary Creature — Kraken
$0.58
Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it.
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.
Mossborn Hydra
Creature — Elemental Hydra
$13.48
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Kodama of the East Tree
Legendary Creature — Spirit
$3.72
Reach
Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Nezahal, Primal Tide
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$8.64
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Cultivator Colossus
Creature — Plant Beast
$5.09
Trample
Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Legendary Creature — Beast Noble
$3.08
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
{4}{G}{G}, {T}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.
Scourge of Fleets
Creature — Kraken
$0.46
When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Coiling Oracle
Creature — Snake Elf Druid
$0.16
When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
Roil Elemental
Creature — Elemental
$12.73
Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.
Murkfiend Liege
Creature — Horror
$2.16
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Courser of Kruphix
Enchantment Creature — Centaur
$1.7
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
Legendary Creature — Elemental Avatar
$0.25
Reach, trample
Multani gets +1/+1 for each land you control and each land card in your graveyard.
{1}{G}, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
Legendary Creature — Leviathan
$0.35
Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.
Koma, World-Eater
Legendary Creature — Serpent
$0.61
This spell can't be countered.
Trample, ward {4}
Whenever Koma deals combat damage to a player, create four 3/3 blue Serpent creature tokens named Koma's Coil.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$5.72
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Springheart Nantuko
Enchantment Creature — Insect Monk
$5.91
Bestow {1}{G}
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
Trench Behemoth
Creature — Kraken
$0.76
Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Untap this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target creature an opponent controls attacks during its controller's next combat phase if able.
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
Legendary Creature — Elemental Sorcerer
$13.65
Protection from planeswalkers and from Wizards
Greensleeves's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 3/3 green Badger creature token.
Traveling Chocobo
Creature — Bird
$16.96
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast Bird spells from the top of your library.
If a land or Bird you control entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Yavimaya Elder
Creature — Human Druid
$0.15
When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Terastodon
Creature — Elephant
$0.28
When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Acidic Slime
Creature — Ooze
$0.1
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
Legendary Creature — Giant Scout
$0.38
Reach
When Bonny Pall enters, create Beau, a legendary blue Ox creature token with "Beau's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control."
Whenever you attack, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
Shipbreaker Kraken
Creature — Kraken
$0.22
{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When this creature becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control this creature.
Instants (12)
Growth Spiral
Instant
$0.28
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Harrow
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Crop Rotation
Instant
$3.45
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Cyclonic Rift
Instant
$30.27
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Arcane Denial
Instant
$1.57
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Gush
Instant
$2.45
You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Draw two cards.
Return of the Wildspeaker
Instant
$1.43
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Pact of Negation
Instant
$17.7
Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.
Sorceries (7)
Cultivate
Sorcery
$0.36
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Kodama's Reach
Sorcery — Arcane
$1.5
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Rampant Growth
Sorcery
$0.41
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Nature's Lore
Sorcery
$1.8
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Compulsive Research
Sorcery
$0.05
Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Exploration
Enchantment
$29.59
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Rhystic Study
Enchantment
$67.53
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.
Lands (39)
Jungle Basin
Land
$0.52
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.
Coral Atoll
Land
$0.62
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.
Mystic Sanctuary
Land — Island
$1.11
({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Boseiju, Who Endures
Legendary Land
$48.29
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Otawara, Soaring City
Legendary Land
$26.49
{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
Legendary Land
$16.89
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}: Return Oboro to its owner's hand.
Guildless Commons
Land
$1.2
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Strip Mine
Land
$10.71
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.
Mistrise Village
Land
$6.98
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Basic lands: 17 Forest 10 Island
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