Derevi, Empyrial Tactician EDH

Commander / EDH

FrankTheFoot

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Creature (28)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Willbreaker

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ajani Unyielding
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Instant (12)

• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Creature (20)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Baneslayer Angel
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Voice of Resurgence
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact (7)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Thought Vessel

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Explore
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Wargate

Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rhystic Study

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This is a Derevi, Empyrial Tactician midrange deck. It wants to ramp early and can get out some pretty big threats early with a good hand. This deck focuses more on untapping your own things with Derevi's ability to gain insane value as opposed to tapping down your opponents things. Mana Vault/Grim Monolith/Basalt Monolith are great targets for untapping with Derevi, Empyrial Tactician's ability. Later in the game, it's pretty easy to combo off. There's a little bit of a wizard theme, but the deck isn't super committed to it. This is an incredibly fun deck to play and the deck does so many different and interesting things. The win condition is usually Craterhoof Behemoth or producing infinite mana with Deadeye Navigator. Tooth and Nail should either fetch Deadeye Navigator with Palinchron or Craterhoof Behemoth depending on the scenario. With the infinite mana, you can infinitely tap down your opponents during upkeep by blinking Derevi, Empyrial Tactician over and over. You can infinitely untap your own things as well. It doesn't outright win the game, but pretty much does. There are few things that your opponents can do after that, especially if you have Voidmage Prodigy, Glen Elendra Archmage, Restoration Angel, or Venser, Shaper Savant to protect your Deadeye Navigator from instant speed removal.

Ways to produce infinite mana of all colors:

Deadeye Navigator+Palinchron+Enough Lands

Deadeye Navigator+Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Gilded Lotus

Deadeye Navigator+Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Mirari's Wake/Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger+Simic Growth Chamber/Azorius Chancery

Palinchron+Mirari's Wake/Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger+Enough Lands

Ways to produce infinite mana of Green/White:

Deadeye Navigator+Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Bloom Tender

Interesting Interactions:

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Sensei's Divining Top=Double draw. You can make a stack where you can choose to draw with Sensei's Divining Top, and then put Derevi, Empyrial Tactician into play with his ability or blink him with Deadeye Navigator. This can draw your whole deck if you have infinite mana with Deadeye Navigator.

Arcanis the Omnipotent+multiple combat damage triggers=Draw tons of cards. Use all of your triggers to untap Arcanis the Omnipotent. After each untap resolves, activate Arcanis the Omnipotent again to draw three cards. You'll get three cards per untap. You can do this with any of the creatures with untap abilities like Weathered Wayfarer or Captain Sisay or Birthing Pod, but it's best with Arcanis the Omnipotent

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Willbreaker=Steal lots of opponents creatures. Use Derevi, Empyrial Tactician to untap your opponents creatures and you'll steal them (the creatures don't need to be tapped to try and untap). Great for getting rid of opponents commanders and threats.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Morph 2/2 C