Reap the Tides
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- Commander
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $86.12
- Grade
- B
How it grades
Fundamentals 78/100. Plays like Lands-matter and +1/+1 counters.
This reads as Lands-matter · +1/+1 counters, built around Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait. Lands are the engine, not the tax: extra land drops and landfall triggers turn every land into ramp, bodies, and card advantage at once. The land count runs deliberately high, recursion makes fetches replayable, and the late game wins through land-fueled payoffs the table can't interact with easily. Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait sits on the cEDH tier list, so the ceiling here is tournament-grade, and experienced tables will treat it that way. Its strongest fundamental is card draw (15 draw effects, counting Aesi (want 10+ for Lands-matter)); the first thing to tighten is mana curve: 25% of spells cost ≤2, 31% cost 6+.
- AMana reliability
- B+Land count
- C+Mana curve
- ARamp
- A+Card draw
- A+Interaction
- B+Commander synergy
- AWin conditions
- ACard quality
- A+Legality & size
Where it falls short
- B+Land count44 lands. About 47 fits this curve for Lands-matter.
- C+Mana curve25% of spells cost ≤2, 31% cost 6+.
- B+Commander synergyOnly 28 of 55 spells play into your commanders' plan; they want land, card-draw, enters-the-battlefield support. Counts the builds players run with your commanders (Lands Matter, Card Draw; from EDHREC).
Strong on mana reliability, ramp, card draw, interaction, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
73 cards graded: A- 11, B+ 19, B 33, B- 6, C+ 4. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Made together, they take Reap the Tides from B to A+.
Tireless Provisioner2G$3.94
In place of Stumpsquall Hydra: weakest slot in the deck (50/100)
Pays off your land engine (14 producers). Pays off the commanders' land plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Scute Swarm2G$9.04
In place of Spitting Image: weakest slot in the deck (52/100)
EDHREC Lands-matter staple. Pays off your land engine (14 producers). Pays off the commanders' land plan.
Lotus Cobra1G$5.60
In place of Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer: weakest slot in the deck (55/100)
Pays off your land engine (14 producers). Pays off the commanders' land plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid3GU$0.29
In place of Sharktocrab: weakest slot in the deck (56/100)
Pays off your land engine (14 producers). Pays off the commanders' land plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Springheart Nantuko1G$6.18
In place of Sphinx of Uthuun: weakest slot in the deck (57/100)
Pays off your land engine (14 producers). Pays off the commanders' land plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Thought Vessel2—
In place of Shipbreaker Kraken: weakest slot in the deck (59/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (16 producers). Pays off the commanders' card-draw plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Archmage Emeritus2UU$0.70
In place of Simic Sky Swallower: weakest slot in the deck (59/100)
Pays off your instant-and-sorcery engine (18 producers). Fits the card-draw build players run with your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Decanter of Endless Water3$5.31
In place of Elder Deep-Fiend: weakest slot in the deck (59/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (16 producers). Pays off the commanders' card-draw plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Psychosis Crawler5$2.68
In place of Meloku the Clouded Mirror: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (16 producers). Pays off the commanders' card-draw plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Conjurer's Closet5$4.14
In place of Coiling Oracle: weakest slot in the deck (63/100)
Pays off your enters-the-battlefield engine (26 producers). Pays off the commanders' enters-the-battlefield plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 30
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Instants 8
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Sorceries 10
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Artifacts 4
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Enchantments 3
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Lands 44
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