Instill Infinite Turns EDH by xvortexbladex

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 82

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Bant combo-control build commanded by Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. The primary win strategy leverages Derevi's repeatable tap/untap triggers alongside Time Vault to establish an infinite extra-turn loop as early as Turn 3. When Time Vault enters tapped, casting or activating Derevi untaps it immediately, allowing the pilot to take an extra turn. In each subsequent turn, Derevi attacks with flying to connect for combat damage, triggering Derevi to untap Time Vault again and taking infinite consecutive turns until all opponents are eliminated. The deck supports this line with format-ceiling mana acceleration, versatile artifact and creature tutors, and dense stax and silence pieces like Drannith Magistrate, Grand Abolisher, and Teferi, Time Raveler. If the primary route is contested, redundant backup lines including Isochron Scepter with Dramatic Reversal and Bloom Tender with Freed from the Real provide infinite mana outlets to secure decisive table victories.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Animate Artifact
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Estrid's Invocation
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Pilgrim
  • 1 Helix Pinnacle
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Instill Energy
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Time Vault
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth