Livin' in a Avian's Paradise
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician Commander Deck
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician leads a tap/untap value engine where combat damage from flying creatures triggers permanent untaps, generating massive mana advantage and enabling repeated activations, particularly alongside Seedborn Muse to maintain full resources even through opponents' turns. The deck builds a wide board of evasive creatures to keep landing damage, fueling card draw through combat damage triggers from enchantments and permanents like Bident of Thassa and Toski, Bearer of Secrets, while counterspells and targeted removal protect the strategy. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents with a snowballing board of flying creatures buffed by lords and equipment, leveraging Brago, King Eternal to repeatedly blink permanents for additional value, or simply grinding out card and mana advantage until threats like Koma, World-Eater or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite close the game.
Decklist
- Basilisk Collar
- Empyrean Eagle
- Emeria Angel
- Blackblade Reforged
- Tamiyo, Field Researcher
- Mystic Remora
- Sol Ring
- Llanowar Elves
- Farseek
- High Market
- Brushland
- Yavimaya Coast
- Adarkar Wastes
- Command Tower
- Exotic Orchard
- Botanical Sanctum
- Rampant Growth
- Overflowing Basin
- Seaside Citadel
- Sunpetal Grove
- Hinterland Harbor
- Skullclamp
- Swords to Plowshares
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Kodama's Reach
- Collector Ouphe
- Cartographer's Hawk
- Esper Sentinel
- Seachrome Coast
- Razorverge Thicket
- Sungrass Prairie
- Glacial Fortress
- Skycloud Expanse
- Canopy Vista
- 3× Plains
- Prairie Stream
- Windswept Heath
- Flooded Strand
- Flooded Grove
- Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
- Birds of Paradise
- Glen Elendra Archmage
- Bant Panorama
- Swan Song
- Counterspell
- Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Seedborn Muse
- Shorikai, Genesis Engine
- Beast Within
- Guardian Project
- Fierce Guardianship
- Authority of the Consuls
- Supreme Verdict
- Path to Exile
- Generous Gift
- Reconnaissance Mission
- Elvish Mystic
- Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
- Celestial Colonnade
- Nature's Lore
- 4× Island
- Mistmeadow Witch
- Dour Port-Mage
- Cultivate
- Enlightened Tutor
- Aura Shards
- 2× Forest
- Ashnod's Altar
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Bident of Thassa
- Harrow
- Witness Protection
- Evolving Wilds
- Brago, King Eternal
- Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
- Curse of Verbosity
- Skycat Sovereign
- Mother of Runes
- Bane of Progress
- Sunblast Angel
- Loran of the Third Path
- Trygon Predator
- Vapor Snag
- Worldly Tutor
- Koma, World-Eater
- Waterbender Ascension
- Solve the Equation
- Rapid Hybridization
- Leyline of Anticipation
- Enduring Curiosity
- Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive