Nexus Derevi

Commander / EDH* GWU (Bant)

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Land (30)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith

Creature (28)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Nomads en-Kor
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Artifact (10)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Verity Circle
• 1x Wild Growth

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Sorcery (2)

• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Wargate

Artifact (2)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Mesmeric Orb

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Nexus will become your one-card library if you execute a combo that full-mills your library. Once milled, your draw step will draw Nexus, casting it would give you an extra turn, and it would be put back as your one-card library to draw on the extra turn. If it were countered, it would again become your one-card library. Uninterrupted and with enough mana to recast Nexus each turn would net infinite turns.

There are two paths to full-mill here:

Hermit Druid with no basics

Cephalid Illusionist + Nomads en-Kor, aka "Cephalid Breakfast"

(not included: Basalt Monolith + Mesmeric Orb)

The biggest hurdle to making this otherwise quite compact win-condition work is making the 7 mana to cast and recast Nexus. Enter our beloved bird-wizard Derevi. Desperately in need of a reliable win-condition, her outward strengths are making lots of mana and slowing the game down to reach that critical mass of ramp. Perfect.

Derevi is an interesting fit for this strategy for a few reasons:

Derevi makes tons of mana during combat, which can be used to cast the instant speed Nexus.

She uses Yisan well which can assemble Breakfast on verses 1 and 2.

She wants one-card creature wincons to use her creature tutors for, which get either Hermit Druid or Yisan.

She's a flyer, which kills over infinite turns.

She can use excess triggers on the turn loop to tap down flying blockers.

She can realistically cast Nexus on its own in later turns.

This combo works under Rule of Law effects and other common stax, which Derevi works well with.

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.06
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C
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