FINAL derevi by jakbak

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 69

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Bant blink and combo strategy helmed by Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. It leverages low-cost mana dorks and rocks to accelerate into powerful value engines, asymmetric stax pieces, and creature-based tutor chains. Derevi provides an ever-present, uncounterable utility engine that bypasses commander tax and untaps lands or taps opposing blockers upon combat damage. The primary win condition utilizes Birthing Pod chains and blink loops with Peregrine Drake paired with Deadeye Navigator or Emiel the Blessed, generating infinite colored mana to draw the entire library and execute a lethal same-turn finish via Walking Ballista or Finale of Devastation. The strategy is backed by format-defining protection pieces like Grand Abolisher and free counterspells to ensure decisive execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Guardian
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preston, the Vanisher
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Seasoned Cryomancer
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 White Plume Adventurer
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth