Riku funstuff

Commander / EDH* Group Hug Group Slug Multiplayer RUG (Temur)

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Big ramp (7)

• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Overabundance
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Control (6)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Plasm Capture

Draw (10)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Pore Over the Pages
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Truth or Tale

Draw search (5)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Signal the Clans

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 2x Island
• 1x Mirrodin's Core
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Punch (20)

• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Cultivator of Blades
• 1x Decimator of the Provinces
• 1x Dubious Challenge
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Glorybringer
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Magmatic Force
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x See the Unwritten
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Territorial Hellkite
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Wilderness Elemental
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Punch double (4)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Tempt with Reflections

Ramp (12)

• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Somberwald Sage

Commander (1)

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Other (4)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Selvala's Stampede

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In general this is a ramp into big baddy sort of deck, but it has allot of cool interactions and some fun political cards. My playgroup is more casual than not so I avoided some of the big name tutors and critters. Our games have been kinda long lately, I made the deck to sorta speed things along. Give everyone a bit more mana to do their thing and personally abuse it a bit.

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Stuff like Hunted Dragon is pretty fun. Duplicate it, Tempt with Reflections it, whatever. It can drown the board in tokens in the blink of an eye.

Dubious Challenge . Especially fun if one of the cards pulled up is a Dack's Duplicate or the likes. You give something good to a deck that is down on its luck then get a copy of it yourself. Also good for teaming up on a deck that's spiraling out of control.

Heartbeat of Spring , Mana Flare, Overabundance, exc. A bit of a hug all around. Works really well when it comes to casting a 5 mana commander and having 2+ mana tagged on to cast spells later.

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Eldritch Evolutioning a 3-4 mana creature with Riku in play is the easiest win condition. When you cast eldritch evolution and duplicate it with Riku you search for 2 creatures after sacrificing 1. With the first search I usually get an Ogre Battledriver and the second gets a Pathbreaker Ibex. When the ibex enters the battlefield you can duplicate it with Riku, you can duplicate the Ogre too if you have the mana. In the end you usually swing for hundreds of damage that turn. I think the most I've got out of it is about 2500 or so on turn 6. I had Flameshadow Conjuring and Oger Battledriver already on the field so searched for a Pathbreaker Ibex and Dack's Duplicate ending up with 6 of the +X/+X procs... or +315/+315. And trample.

Woodland Bellower. It's a solid card. Riku can duplicate the green creature it searches for when it comes into play, and if you duplicate Woodland Bellower itself you get a second 6/5 that searches for a second 3 mana creature that you can then duplicate...

Frantic Search Pore Over the Pages work really well with the mana doublers.

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Notes to Self

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Run out of gas too easily. Need more drawing. Solution: dump some of the Preordain style cards for larger draws Combustible Gearhulk?

Can be awkward early. Even with a mana doubler in hand. Solution: have 12~ 1-3 mana ramp cards.

Can really have trouble without a mana doubler. Solution: push the 1-3 mana ramp into giving more than 1 mana to try to cover for it. Make the draw cards go through allot of cards. Cram in some potential searches Elvish Harbinger.

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This deck will be a 2-4 mana cool duplicate spell deck. Problem: Most cool spells are 4-7 mana.... might have to go mana crazy to cope.

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36 lands.

12+ ramp that costs 3 or less. Need something to do early game.

10~ control cards.

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1/2~ Power Cards. Stuff that uses Riku's doubling and/or mana doubling well.

Draw. Need allot of value with each card. Rhystic Study is the dream. Cathartic Reunion is solid (can duplicate with riku to discard 2 then draw 6). Ponder is a big maybe.

Search. Ideally a tutor would give the option between getting a win condition Pathbreaker Ibex Eldritch Evolution exc, a good ramp card Zhur-Taa Ancient Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Harrow, and a draw card Prime Speaker Zegana.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.11
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ First Strike, Morph 2/2 C, Servo 1/1 C, The Monarch