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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.
“Land-ramp engine that draws cards and beats face with value.”
Aesi is a landfall engine that gives you an extra land drop per turn, triggering its draw ability repeatedly. You're basically playing extra lands every single turn and drawing cards off them, which means you'll have a full hand and a massive mana pool by mid-game. The deck wants to abuse this by playing tons of lands (fetch lands, land ramp, cards that put lands into play), ramping into bigger threats, and using that mana advantage to either go wide with tokens or tall with a big commander.
Your gameplan is straightforward: ramp hard, draw tons of cards, and leverage that advantage into an overwhelming board presence. You can win through combat with Aesi as a 5/5 flyer, swarm with token generators, or just have so much mana and card advantage that you outpace the table. The deck slots naturally into a midrange shell where you're generating value every turn cycle without needing to do anything flashy—just playing lands and drawing cards wins on its own.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Skip the fetch lands initially; use Cultivate, Rampant Growth, and Sakura-Tribe Elder instead. Swap dual lands for basics and budget dual-lands like Hinterland Harbor or Evolving Wilds.
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