Rionya, Fire Dancer

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create X tokens that are copies of another target creature you control, where X is one plus the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn. They gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Tokens

• Copy Clone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (33)

jozef on Etali, Primal Conqueror

4 weeks ago

Hey NV_1980

Thanks for the suggestions! I do own a Splinter Twin. Looking to add Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink and Mirage Phalanx now. Rionya, Fire Dancer, Delina, Wild Mage, Flamerush Rider, and Blade of Selves are also some solid options for this effect.

They work especially well as a surprise token copy ETB with haste enablers like Xenagos, God of Revels, and Rhythm of the Wild.

jozef on Etali, Primal Conqueror

4 weeks ago

Hey NV_1980

Thanks for the suggestions! I do own a Splinter Twin. Looking to add Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink and Mirage Phalanx now. Rionya, Fire Dancer, Delina, Wild Mage, Flamerush Rider, Calamity, Galloping Inferno, and Blade of Selves are also some solid options for this effect.

They work especially well as a surprise token copy ETB with haste enablers like Xenagos, God of Revels, and Rhythm of the Wild.

DreadKhan on Lightning Bolts shoot from my fingertips

2 months ago

It's a bit pricey, but Exquisite Blood is generically very good with burn effects. If you don't mind a combo potentially showing up you can also use Sanguine Bond, which also happens to love your Commander's Lifelink (and fwiw unlike most decks that just throw that in you are VERY able to burn people to actually win on the spot).

I think if you want to use Manabarbs maybe you should look at more Artifact type ramp that won't trigger it? There are some easy ones like Rakdos Signet, Talisman of Indulgence that can even give you coloured mana, and some like Worn Powerstone and Thran Dynamo that can help keep your Commander on the table. Also, maybe I'm missing a ton of them, but IMHO you should have more artifacts if you want to use a Mox Opal.

Some other random goodies you might like: Maddening Hex (this would be HILARIOUS with some doublers), Chandra's Ignition (if you target something with lifelink remember it's the CREATURE doing the damage, so you can gain a TON of life off of this if the board is fairly full, and it's great with a Deathtouch source like Gift of Doom), Fire Covenant (one of the best burn spells ever), and MAYBE a Rionya, Fire Dancer since you've got all those Sorceries.

YMMV but I love having some small card draw effects in a deck like this, maybe Night's Whisper, Winds of Change, Humble Defector, and/or Phyrexian Arena? I feel like Sign in Blood's BB might be awkward.

It's not exactly 'lightning from your fingers', but Brash Taunter is one of the funniest creatures in Magic, just having the little guy out can make you much harder to attack into, and before your turn if you didn't need to remove/burn something you can use mana you're holding up to pick a fight with the biggest creature on board. It's nutso with all your damage doublers IMHO. One of my favorite interactions in all of Magic is how good Scavenged Brawler is with Taunter, it's the kind of thing you won't pull off often, but if people aren't running enough Swords to Plowshares family effects it's amazing.

DreadKhan on Avoiding Consequences

1 year ago

No sure if they are pushed enough for your needs, have you tried Feldon of the Third Path and/or Rionya, Fire Dancer in here?

DreadKhan on EtrinalYuno118

2 years ago

I thought of this after my post, but Rionya, Fire Dancer might be interesting in your Lil' Shit deck, you have a reasonable number of instants and sorceries, and if you can make more than 1 copy of your Commander it should be quite devastating. If not the 1 copy per turn would be pretty horrifying to anyone who's a tall chicken (player who sticks out).

Also, not sure if it will help that much with your deck, but I have a Rakdos deck that is very much in the vein of Troll deck, it's Pavel the Mighty, Hero We Deserve, a roleplay deck that I'm using for brainstorming purposes, but it's also a very effective 99 driven deck (the Commander can come out and do work, like yours, but he needs the voltron elements to take full advantage) that can win games without casting the Commander, depending on the power level naturally. It might have some tricks you could sneak into your deck. For example, a weird idea I might not want to spam your deck with is the Battery lands. These can store mana, making it easier to cast your 7 mana Commander early and repeatedly, though I'd stick with the Mercadia ones if you're in 3 colours!

The_Biking_Viking on You'll have to toss me! (Don't Tell the Elf)

2 years ago

TheMeadiator first off, love the name. Skol! Thank you for the suggestions Stalking Vengeance is 100% going to find a home in here and know I have a copy of Unleash Fury laying around.

DreadKhan wow I really like all of these, but Rionya, Fire Dancer Windswift Slice and Two-Handed Axe i've never seen before. The slice is fun thinking of Legolas stealing kills :D.

DreadKhan on You'll have to toss me! (Don't Tell the Elf)

2 years ago

Have you thought about Neyith of the Dire Hunt and Rionya, Fire Dancer for this? Since you often have big creatures there is Chandra's Ignition, and Windswift Slice manages to be the world's biggest flavor fail and win at the same time, at least nobody will miss those elves when you sacrifice them! Two-Handed Axe might fit (and it's a big ax!), Inquisitor's Flail is unfortunately not an ax but is also very good if Gimli has high toughness.

I'm not sure how big your tallest creatures end up, but Monstrous Onslaught is very good with an excessively big creature.

Cool deck!

Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor on March of the Machine

2 years ago

I only just realized how busted the Backup mechanic is with Rionya, Fire Dancer. Definitely will have to consider Death-Greeter's Champion and Voldaren Thrillseeker for my Rionya list...that is if she survives the strong urge I am having to swap that deck over to Urabrask.