Derevi by CarterC153

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Bant deck helmed by Derevi, Empyrial Tactician combines oppressive stax elements with explosive blink-combo finishes. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early mana accelerators like Birds of Paradise and Bloom Tender alongside disruptive tax pieces like Drannith Magistrate, Blind Obedience, and Kismet. These stax elements stall opposing development, tap opposing blockers and lands, and deny commander casting. Meanwhile, Derevi’s combat damage triggers untap key mana sources, breaking parity and accelerating resource flow. The mid-game leverages massive card draw from engines like The One Ring, Consecrated Sphinx, and Sylvan Library or tutors like Tooth and Nail and Eladamri's Call. The deck closes the game on Turn 6 by pairing Deadeye Navigator with Derevi and a 3-mana source like Bloom Tender to generate infinite colored mana, infinite permanent taps, and immediate table-wide decking or life drain through Blue Sun's Zenith, Drown in Dreams, or Psychosis Crawler, fiercely shielded by Grand Abolisher.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Future Sight
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kismet
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seasons Past
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wargate
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Windswept Heath