Evasive Maneuvers by user5602235

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician pilots a Bant tap/untap value-control deck. The primary plan is to attack with evasive creatures, use Derevi's combat trigger to untap lands and permanents, then translate a wide token board into lethal swings with Mirror Entity. Secondary plans are creature theft and blink-value recursion through Roon, Conjurer's Closet, and Venser. Roon functions as a hidden commander in the 99, offering a second blink engine when Derevi is taxed or answered. The deck is not an infinite-combo deck: the Karmic Guide, Reveillark, and Mirror Entity loop exists but has no payoff, so it is used for recursive value.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aethermage's Touch
  • 1 Angel of Condemnation
  • 1 Angel of Finality
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
  • 1 Azorius Keyrune
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Bant Panorama
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Curse of Inertia
  • 1 Curse of Predation
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Deceiver Exarch
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Djinn of Infinite Deceits
  • 1 Dungeon Geists
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Conclave
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flickerform
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kirtar's Wrath
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Leafdrake Roost
  • 1 Leonin Bladetrap
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mistmeadow Witch
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Pilgrim's Eye
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Presence of Gond
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Restore
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Roon of the Hidden Realm
  • 1 Rubinia Soulsinger
  • 1 Rupture Spire
  • 1 Saltcrusted Steppe
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Sejiri Refuge
  • 1 Selesnya Charm
  • 1 Selesnya Guildmage
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Skyward Eye Prophets
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sower of Temptation
  • 1 Stonecloaker
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Sunblast Angel
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surveyor's Scope
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Paruns
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tempt with Glory
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornwind Faeries
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Unexpectedly Absent
  • 1 Venser, the Sojourner
  • 1 Winged Coatl
  • 1 Wonder