Your Own Best Friend - Riku's Allies

Commander / EDH Multiplayer RUG (Temur) Tribal

Zeussical

Instant (3)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Turn / Burn

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Give / Take
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Voidwalk

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Bred for the Hunt
• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Descendants' Path
• 1x Splinter Twin

Artifact (7)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Minion Reflector
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Creature (38)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Bramblewood Paragon
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Crowned Ceratok
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Experiment Kraj
• 1x Graypelt Hunter
• 1x Harabaz Druid
• 1x Jwari Shapeshifter
• 1x Kazuul Warlord
• 1x Mistform Ultimus
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Murasa Pyromancer
• 1x Novijen Sages
• 1x Oran-Rief Survivalist
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Sea Gate Loremaster
• 1x Seshiro the Anointed
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tajuru Archer
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Turntimber Ranger
• 1x Umara Raptor
• 1x Woodland Changeling
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Land (35)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Winding Canyons

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Primal Command

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Asceticism

Artifact (1)

• 1x Nim Deathmantle

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Domri Rade
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Creature (6)

• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade

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A Riku Allies (and changelings) Tribal EDH deck

The idea here is to get out a bunch of Allies (and changelings) and to use copy and clone effects to make them go wild. Murasa Pyromancer is a big shot here, as is Tajuru Archer to a lesser extent. Descendant's Path and Call to the Kindred can build up a fair army when paired with changelings, and can still do reasonably on an Ally.

There is also a fair amount of flickering to get the most out of the ETB effects, and some +1/+1 counter synergies.

This is designed to be on the low end of the cutthroat spectrum, though it can get a little out of hand in a meta with few sweepers. With sweepers, it needs to play a little more carefully and not dump everything into play too quickly. It is a creature-based strategy though, so it's probably to be expected.

What this deck lacks is probably reliable card-advantage and hand-fixing. There are a couple of splashy big draws, but nothing that really smooths the deck, so it's designed with a bit of variance in there. There probably could be some library manipulation added if that was a direction to go in.

There also aren't any big game-ending cards or combos in there. This is somewhat by design, as the strategy I had in mind was just to steadily build up an ally army, but it's concievable that Overrun effects or Genesis Wave might be warranted.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.85
Tokens	Copy Clone, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	EDH, decks