Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait card art — Art by Viktor Titov · © Wizards of the Coast

Reap the Tides

Bracket 2

CMR — Commander Legends · 2020-11-20

Commander: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait · Color identity: GU

Bracket

Power Level

4.3/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

No hard floors (no Game Changers, no two-card infinite combo, no mass land destruction) — verdict from optimization score 24/75 (11 interaction, 15 card draw, 1 fast-mana)
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 2 Commander Legends decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — power 4.3 versus a set average of 4.5. That is 0.3 below the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Commander Legends decks

Arm for Battle — Bracket 2, power 4.7

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Animated Army — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Counter Intelligence — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Dance of the Elements — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Divine Convocation — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Doom Prevails — Bracket 2, power 4.3

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Arcane Signet Ramp $0.49
Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $5.61
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.23
Three Visits Ramp $5.55
Swan Song Interaction $10.69
Negate Interaction $0.24

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $24.81

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Decklist (100 cards)

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
8 Forest
7 Forest
8 Island
7 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

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/ReapTheTides_CMR.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.