Reap the Tides mana base review

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait · 100 cards including the commander · 44 lands · colors G, U

Landfall and repeated land drops. Check the real land count, early colored costs, tapped entry, and fetch or ramp targets. Land-drop probabilities are only a baseline; actual sequencing matters.

What to preserve

Keep the extra-land and landfall draw engines together. Aesi's card draw depends on lands entering, so a low land count can weaken both mana and the deck's plan.

A useful first review

Build a mana base around the imported spells, compare the sources and timing, and record one problem after playing.

1. Load the list and check the commander and 100-card count.
2. Set your purchase budget and intended table. Add owned options and protect the engines you intend to keep.
3. Review the actual card text before accepting a change. Save the baseline and edited list as separate project versions.
4. Export the full deck, play it, and attach an observation and next-review date to the tested version.

What to record after playing

Record missed land drops, unused ramp, and whether the larger spells stayed stranded in hand.

The stock list

1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
1 Coiling Oracle
1 Eternal Witness
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Stumpsquall Hydra
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Fathom Mage
1 Sharktocrab
1 Wickerbough Elder
1 Acidic Slime
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Mulldrifter
1 Murkfiend Liege
1 Sporemound
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Shipbreaker Kraken
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Meteor Golem
1 Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
1 Scourge of Fleets
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Sphinx of Uthuun
1 Trench Behemoth
1 Tromokratis
1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
1 Elder Deep-Fiend
1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
1 Stormtide Leviathan
1 Terastodon
1 Arcane Denial
1 Counterspell
1 Growth Spiral
1 Into the Roil
1 Peel from Reality
1 Simic Charm
1 Beast Within
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Explore
1 Rampant Growth
1 Compulsive Research
1 Cultivate
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Harmonize
1 Whelming Wave
1 Urban Evolution
1 Spitting Image
1 Ior Ruin Expedition
1 Khalni Heart Expedition
1 Retreat to Kazandu
1 Sol Ring
1 Simic Signet
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Seer's Sundial
1 Blighted Woodland
1 Command Tower
1 Coral Atoll
1 Evolving Wilds
15 Forest
15 Island
1 Jungle Basin
1 Memorial to Genius
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Simic Guildgate
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thornwood Falls
1 Vivid Creek
1 Vivid Grove
1 Woodland Stream

Stock list released 2020-11-20; reference data checked October 7, 2026. Prices, legality, and available candidates can change. A stock list is a starting point, not a bracket certification or a promise of better game results.

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