Budget replacements for Reap the Tides

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait · $25.00 purchase budget

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What to consider

The Aesi swap preserves landfall-based draw at a lower card value, while losing Nezahal’s resilience and draw from opponents casting spells.
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Recommended changes

$0.28 estimated purchase cost · 1 proposed swaps. Shipping and taxes excluded.

Estimated deck-value reduction: $8.88. This compares card values; it is not cash earned by selling the cuts.

Nezahal, Primal Tide → Tatyova, Benthic Druid

$9.16 → $0.28

Keeps a comparable draw function while reducing card value.

Mana value 7 → 5. Compare restrictions, timing, and theme interactions before accepting.

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Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Before and after role counts

draw: 14 → 14
ramp: 12 → 12
removal: 9 → 9
wipe: 2 → 2
other: 69 → 69

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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 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

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