Derevi, Empyrial Tactician card art

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard MV 3

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What it does

Flying

When Derevi enters and whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent.

1: Put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone.

Combos with Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2015-01-19

    Derevi, Empyrial Tactician is banned as a commander in Duel Commander format, but it may be part of your deck.

  • 2020-11-10

    You can activate Derevi's last ability only when it is in the command zone.

  • 2020-11-10

    When you activate Derevi's last ability, you're not casting Derevi as a spell. The ability can't be countered by something that counters only spells. The ability isn't subject to the commander tax, nor does it increase the tax if you cast Derevi from the command zone later in the game.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Choco, Seeker of Paradise 1 0 —
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Five-Color 1 deck
  • Bant 1 deck

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician price history

The Commander Anthology #176 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Foil today$6.79▼ $0.04 (0.6%)
Low $6.79 · High $6.91Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateFoil
Nov 11, 2026$6.79
Nov 5, 2026$6.79
Nov 2, 2026$6.82
Oct 17, 2026$6.83
Oct 16, 2026$6.85
Oct 9, 2026$6.91
Sep 28, 2026$6.83

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.

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