Derevi, Empirical Tactician

Commander / EDH* GWU (Bant)

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Creature (21)

• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Captain of the Watch
• 1x Deepwater Hypnotist
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Geist of Saint Traft
• 1x Gideon's Avenger
• 1x God-Favored General
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Kazandu Tuskcaller
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Master of the Wild Hunt
• 1x Midnight Guard
• 1x Myr Propagator
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Selesnya Evangel
• 1x Skinshifter
• 1x Stinging Licid
• 1x Stonybrook Schoolmaster
• 1x Thraben Doomsayer
• 1x Voice of Resurgence

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Gideon Jura
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Land (36)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Calciform Pools
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Plains
• 1x Saltcrusted Steppe
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Treva's Ruins
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Windbrisk Heights
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Epic Struggle
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Presence of Gond
• 1x Squirrel Nest
• 1x Stasis

Artifact (11)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Origin Spellbomb
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shrine of Loyal Legions
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (15)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Evolution Charm
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystic Genesis
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Remand
• 1x Scatter the Seeds
• 1x Selesnya Charm
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Treva's Charm
• 1x Vitality Charm

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Beck / Call
• 1x Devout Invocation
• 1x Hidden Strings
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Supply / Demand
• 1x Supreme Verdict

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Artifact (1)

• 1x Meekstone

Instant (3)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Wargate

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Bant Sojourners
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Fable of Wolf and Owl

Artifact (1)

• 1x Icy Manipulator

Instant (4)

• 1x Flurry of Wings
• 1x Hour of Need
• 1x Mystic Genesis
• 1x Pongify

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My favourite EDH deck, revolving around Derevi, Empyrial Tactician.

Background

So, I've made a lot of EDH decks, but none of them felt quite solid, and fun to play (except for my Bro-Maz EDH deck). So, I decided to try to make an EDH deck that I would enjoy playing, building, and modifying. I wanted a commander that wasn't always used by everyone, had a lot of combo potential, and most importantly, felt "right". So, I decided to look through gatherer for a commander (when I say look through gatherer, I mean look through EVERY commander out there), and found Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. Fits everything perfectly. She has combo potential (tapping and untapping ANY permanent is pretty boss), and I see very few people using it. Now onto it my deck!

Overview

This deck aims to win through tokens, but different routes through tokens. This deck can either win by killing the opponent using all the tokens, or by using stasis-like effects.

The beginning of the game, you should try to put out a token generator (if you have one. I rarely keep a hand if I don't have some way of generating tokens). Always put out the generators before the Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. A normal start of the game might look something like this:

T1 Tundra. T2 Tropical Island, Kazandu Tuskcaller. T3 Savannah , swing with the [[kazandu tuskcaller], then level up. T4 Plains, play Derevi, empyrical Tactician, untap a land and level up, swing with Kazandu Tuskcaller, untap itself when the damage is done and get an elephant

When you swing and connect, you can either a) untap the thing that creates tokens, and spam more in, or untap your lands (that you previously used on something else). If you have stasis out, you should have one creature untap a blue land, and have all the other creatures untap themselves (unless there is you have a combo that will generate more tokens that mana required for it)

Combos

To work on XD

Date added	10 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 1 Mythic Rares 45 - 10 Rares 31 - 2 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Elemental */* GW, Elephant 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Enchantment Cleric 2/1 W, Enchantment Soldier 1/1 W, Human 1/1 W, Human 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Merfolk Wizard 1/1 U, Myr 1/1 C, Ooze X/X G, Phyrexian Myr 1/1 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Squirrel 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	EDH decks