Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
Legendary Creature — Serpent · {4}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.
Build an Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait deck →
What Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.
What an Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait deck needs
Plays as lands. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- extra lands in hand — land recursion, play from the top of the library, land tutors to hand
- landfall payoffs
- bounce lands and fetch lands (extra draws)
The Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 32× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 4× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 6× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- Exploration1 mana
- Explore2 mana
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
- Exploration Broodship1 mana
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Glacial Chasm + Ramunap Excavator4,589 decks
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Glacial Chasm + Crucible Of Worlds3,921 decks
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Glacial Chasm + Conduit Of Worlds3,308 decks
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Glacial Chasm + Walk-In Closet2,105 decks
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Walk The Aeons + Mystic Sanctuary + Ramunap Excavator1,953 decks
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Walk The Aeons + Mystic Sanctuary + Ancient Greenwarden1,623 decks