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Repair an Aesi deck that runs out of cards

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait · $25.00 purchase budget

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What to consider

  • The Aesi scenario demonstrates missing draw, but the suggested package also addresses interaction. Tireless Tracker needs Clue activations; it does not draw automatically on landfall.
  • Count remaining draw engines after applying selected swaps, then test whether the deck still runs out of cards.

Recommended changes

$0.92 estimated purchase cost · 2 proposed swaps. Shipping and taxes excluded.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger → Insidious Fungus

$1.25 → $0.66

Repairs the draw gap, using 10 as a starting heuristic.

Mana value 12 → 1. Compare restrictions, timing, and theme interactions before accepting.

Compare card text

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Insidious Fungus

{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Draw a card. Then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Krosan Colossus → Tireless Tracker

$0.26 → $0.26

Repairs the draw gap, using 10 as a starting heuristic.

Mana value 9 → 3. Compare restrictions, timing, and theme interactions before accepting.

Compare card text

Krosan Colossus

Morph {6}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Before and after role counts
  • draw: 8 → 10
  • ramp: 11 → 12
  • removal: 9 → 10
  • wipe: 2 → 2
  • other: 75 → 73

Review before applying

  • Role targets are starting heuristics, not a deck rating. Review rules text and theme synergy. Prices exclude shipping.
Complete starting decklist
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 Scaled Wurm
1 Sharktocrab
1 Wickerbough Elder
1 Acidic Slime
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Ancient Brontodon
1 Murkfiend Liege
1 Sporemound
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Shipbreaker Kraken
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Meteor Golem
1 Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
1 Krosan Colossus
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 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
1 Cultivate
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Gigantosaurus
1 Whelming Wave
1 Colossal Dreadmaw
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 source: MTGJSON

These are proposed replacements. Compare the lost abilities and theme interactions before accepting each change.

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