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This deck came out of an attempt to convert my Edric, Spymaster of Trest commander deck into a Bant build with Derevi, Empyrial Tactician as the commander. After testing, I found that I didn't have nearly enough card draw to make it work as I originally intended, so I decided to pivot into more of a tribal theme so I can use some of the new cards from Ixalan and Commander 2017. This is the result: Derevi Bird Tribal.

This deck's goal is to use tribal synergy to make a powerful card draw engine, then use Derevi's natural synergy with lands that tap for multiple mana to machine-gun out as many birds as possible. A bunch of my ramp is in the form of land enchantments that make them produce extra mana, to help with this plan. I win the game with Door of Destinies, Cathars' Crusade, or card:beastmaster's ascension and a field full of birds. Alternatively, I can just outvalue my opponent's by chaining Spitting Image or bounce all of their lands by chaining Capsize.

This deck runs 4 non-bird creatures: Mentor of the Meek; Edric, Spymaster of Trest; Windreader Sphinx; and Reveillark. All of them provide card advantage and are valuable parts of the deck. I'm running slow fetches and no shocks because I'm trying to keep the deck sensibly budgeted. The fetches actually gain additional benefit in this deck. You can untap them with Derevi and basically turn them into normal fetches, and provide shuffling. Quite a few of the birds let you rearrange the top of your library, so being able to crack a fetch and ditch bad cards is pretty valuable.

One combo I want to mention specifically: The land Seaside Haven is pretty mediocre. It's generally not what you want to be doing. However, if you are flush with mana and low on cards you can sacrifice Derevi to Seaside Haven to draw a card, recast him for 4 using his ability, then sacrifice him to Seaside Haven again for another card and repeat. It's 1WWUUG per card draw, but it's instant speed and hard to disrupt without land destruction.

Let me know what you guy's think.

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Date added 6 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 3 Mythic Rares

39 - 12 Rares

25 - 7 Uncommons

18 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.33
Tokens Bird 1/1 W, Bird 2/2 U, Bird Soldier 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Plant 0/2 G
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