Prison Time (to build later) by ShadowRaider112

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Bant deck uses Derevi, Empyrial Tactician to lead an evasive tempo and saboteur strategy. The game plan focuses on deploying low-cost flying and unblockable creatures on the earliest turns, establishing Derevi on Turn 3, and converting combat damage into untap triggers. Connecting with evasive attackers pseudo-untaps lands, allowing the deck to develop board presence while keeping mana open for counterspells and removal. Compounding draw engines like Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Bident of Thassa, and Reconnaissance Mission turn combat connections into substantial card advantage, refilling the hand with disruption. While the deck can achieve a lockout using Stasis alongside Derevi untap triggers, it lacks nonland tutors to assemble this lock reliably. Instead, the deck typically wins by grinding down opponents through unblockable combat damage over extended turn cycles. Its greatest strength lies in its mana velocity and interactive shielding, while its primary vulnerability is the lack of a compact finishing mechanism.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aphetto Alchemist
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken City
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Stasis
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast