Controls final form by UrzaRuinerOfFun

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 90

Deck overview

This Derevi, Empyrial Tactician deck is a high-powered competitive EDH Stax-Combo build designed to suppress opposing development while rapidly assembling compact game-ending loops. The primary strategy leverages format-ceiling acceleration, dense card advantage engines, and asymmetric lock pieces like Winter Orb, Static Orb, and Drannith Magistrate. Derevi uniquely breaks parity on these symmetrical tax effects by manipulating tap states through combat triggers and instant-speed command zone activations. Once the table's mana and interactions are suppressed, the deck reliably pivots into infinite win conditions. Its primary kill utilizes Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal with mana rocks to generate infinite mana and untaps, channeling into Aetherflux Reservoir, The One Ring, or Walking Ballista for an immediate same-turn table elimination. A fully redundant secondary line in Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Walking Ballista provides an autonomous backup. Backed by free countermagic and silence effects, the deck combines relentless stax control with blazing combo efficiency.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arena Rector
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Relic Barrier
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Static Orb
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tamiyo, Compleated Sage
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Worldly Tutor