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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.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander Legends
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#846
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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait card art
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait turns every land drop into a free card, which means it compounds advantage faster than almost any other six-mana creature in Simic — resolve it and you're drawing two or three cards before your next turn cycle ends. The cost is the mana investment and the immediate threat signal it broadcasts, but Glacial Chasm and similar protection pieces exist precisely to keep it alive long enough to bury the table, and Zimone, Mystery Unraveler decks treat it as a second engine rather than a luxury.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

90.0% of decks · synergy 0.72

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler's ability to put lands directly into play off the top triggers Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait repeatedly in a single turn, turning each Zimone activation into card draw without spending a normal land drop — the two cards form a self-sustaining loop that's why Aesi appears in nearly 90% of Zimone lists.

02
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

75.3% of decks · synergy 0.58

Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep builds around sea creatures and extra land drops, so Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait fills both roles at once — it's a Serpent that rewards every land played with a draw, making it one of the most efficient pieces the deck can slot.

03
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

73.3% of decks · synergy 0.56

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa cheats large sea creatures into play for free, and Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait is one of the best targets — a free six-drop that immediately starts converting land drops into cards is exactly what the deck wants to hit off a Kenessos trigger.

04
Omnath, Locus of Creation

Omnath, Locus of Creation

58.9% of decks · synergy 0.39

Omnath, Locus of Creation runs the maximum density of landfall triggers, and Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait stacks another draw trigger on top of every land played — more than half of Omnath builds include it precisely because each land drop now nets both an Omnath effect and a card.

05
Ureni, the Song Unending

Ureni, the Song Unending

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.38

Ureni, the Song Unending leans on repeated land play to fuel its mechanics, making Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait a natural include that converts that land-drop density into card advantage and keeps the hand full across long games.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait lives — six mana is expensive in 60-card formats but completely reasonable in a 40-life multiplayer game where it can draw two or three cards before it ever dies. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but effectively irrelevant; slower enchantment-based engines and broken fast-mana strategies make a six-mana do-nothing-the-turn-it-arrives creature unplayable competitively. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if the format's speed at your table allows it, especially as a signature spell for a Simic planeswalker, but the real ceiling is Commander, where a resolved Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait at a creature-light table can take over a game in two or three turns.

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Pricing data for Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait isn't available here, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market price before buying. It has seen multiple printings, which historically keeps its floor accessible, but demand from landfall and Simic good-stuff decks keeps it from bottoming out entirely.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.