Stun Budget by user3387253

Format: Commander

Commander: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant midrange strategy built around Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, utilizing tap mechanics, stun counters, and proliferation to control the battlefield while growing an evasive army. The game plan focuses on deploying low-cost ramp and early engine cards, followed by Derevi on Turn 4 to trigger combat-based tapping and untapping. Once the engine is active, cards like Timin, Youthful Geist, Solitary Sanctuary, and Freeze in Place lock down opposing blockers and threats with stun counters. Proliferate effects such as Deepglow Skate, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, and Inexorable Tide multiply these stun counters, keeping opposing boards permanently locked while simultaneously growing threats like Rhoda, Geist Avenger and Chasm Skulker. The deck converts this board dominance into a lethal clock around Turn 6, closing out games by Turn 8 through unblockable combat damage and asymmetric burn from Mjölnir, Storm Hammer.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aligned Heart
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Blustersquall
  • 1 Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Cloud's Limit Break
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryogen Relic
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Flood Plain
  • 1 Floodpits Drowner
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Freeze in Place
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Grasslands
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Leech Bonder
  • 1 Loch Mare
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 1 Mjölnir, Storm Hammer
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rhoda, Geist Avenger
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Scroll of Isildur
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Sharae of Numbing Depths
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Sanctuary
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Summon: Shiva
  • 1 Summon: Valefor
  • 1 Sunblast Angel
  • 1 Tamiyo, Field Researcher
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Caves of Androzani
  • 1 The Thirteenth Doctor
  • 1 Theft of Dreams
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
  • 1 Timin, Youthful Geist
  • 1 Unnatural Restoration
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast