Derevi, empyrial tactician

Commander (EDH) forum

Posted on Oct. 7, 2013, 9:27 a.m. by Bobgalarneau

What do you think of this new commander? I think the second ability is a bit to much

GWB
Flying 2/3 bird wizard

Whenever Derevi enters the battlefield or a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent

1GWB: put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone

gufymike says... #2

I like it more and more I think about it (specifically the second ability). I'm glad to see wizards giving a lot of support for the commanders. This one utilizing the command zone and making it easier to cast each time it gets killed and also with the other two that have been spoiled, using the mana to cast them to do certain things. Instead of designing normal magic cards or re-printing famous commanders, they are bringing us new commanders with relevant abilities.

October 7, 2013 9:37 a.m.

Bobgalarneau says... #3

The untap ability will be abused. And for the second ability... I dont't know.... I like it but it's a bittoo powerfull. I feel the commander has it's cost a bit too cheap. I would feel more at ease at 1GWB and 2GWB for the second ability.

I mean, both ability combo so well.... It's a repeatable untap permanents and can untap a load of them in a token deck....

October 7, 2013 10:05 a.m.

gufymike says... #4

Bobgalarneau, let's not fool ourselves into thinking commander is anything else than a format of broken abilities and combos of all types. The untap/tap abilities are already abused, for example Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Pestermite with Anger in the graveyard as one simple example (Palinchron and Deadeye Navigator is another). If these do not degenerate the meta enough to be banned, I highly doubt derevi will also. Sure it will be abused, but what isn't?

October 7, 2013 10:26 a.m.

Bobgalarneau says... #5

Yeah i know.... At least it require colored mana and a sac output to go infinite. It should take more than two cards to infinite...

October 7, 2013 10:29 a.m.

erabel says... #6

I'm just wondering why it's black. Unless the B's are actually U's...

October 7, 2013 10:31 a.m.

gufymike says... #7

B's are U's, He's the bant general.

October 7, 2013 10:33 a.m.

erabel says... #8

Was this announced somewhere?

October 7, 2013 10:34 a.m.

Bobgalarneau says... #9

Yeah i was not awake when i did the post, it's GWU....

October 7, 2013 10:36 a.m.

gufymike says... #10

October 7, 2013 10:38 a.m.

Krayhaft says... #11

Oh, this is interesting. Might build a edh with him...

OT though, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would break him. Infinite mana and a repeatable sac effect will give you infinite ETB/LTB triggers, but if you have infinite mana in the first place, you probably could have won without him

October 7, 2013 11:41 a.m.

Blakkhand says... #12

Broken as hell in 1v1.

October 7, 2013 12:04 p.m.

Necrachilles says... #13

gufymike Why do you need Anger in the graveyard? Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker gives the Pestermite tokens haste and has haste himself. Just curious, maybe I missed something?

October 7, 2013 1:01 p.m.

gufymike says... #14

Necrachilles thinking of another combo actually. Which both are part of the hermit druid edh deck. Thanks for pointing that out.

October 7, 2013 1:10 p.m.

Blakkhand says... #15

gufymike, I assume when you say "the hermit druid edh deck" you mean "a hermit druid edh deck", as THE hermit druid deck on mtgs includes neither kiki-jiki or pestermite.

October 7, 2013 1:19 p.m.

Necrachilles says... #16

Ah okay lol. Was just curious, I am still learning things here and there. :D

October 7, 2013 2:48 p.m.

gufymike says... #17

Blakkhand Mine, the one I'm building. MTGS is not the be all end all either or should be considered when I say 'the' or imply singular (I hardly, if ever look at their lists, maybe a primer or two, but very rarely). So yes, take it as 'a' deck.

October 7, 2013 3:27 p.m.

YouGotFranked says... #18

Who cares about combos. IT'S BIRD TRIBAL TIME!!! Play it with Seaside Haven and Soulcatchers' Aerie and you have a recurring draw effect and a growing anthem.

October 8, 2013 4:38 a.m.

YouGotFranked says... #19

Just realized that my previous comment is a little confusing. I don't mean sacrificing Derevi and get it back since she goes to the command zone, but rather use her ability to untap Seaside Haven over and over to sac more birds.

October 8, 2013 4:51 a.m.

tmloyd says... #20

Birds are a limited commodity!

October 12, 2013 2:16 p.m.

Bobgalarneau says... #21

As are fox and goat, yet some of us dream to make tribal goat!

October 12, 2013 8:33 p.m.

tmloyd says... #22

Your minds whirl with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if you were to succeed...

October 13, 2013 11:35 a.m.

treemandude says... #23

October 15, 2013 6:05 p.m.

Krayhaft says... #24

Did someone say Stasis as well?

October 15, 2013 6:14 p.m.

movarie says... #25

if only there were tribal goats....(sigh)

October 18, 2013 7:08 p.m.

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