Welp I keep seeing these updates and this looks like a ton of fun. I actually rebuilt riku with Sakashima at the helm to give it some different flavor. I might have to rebuild this closer to your updated version and see how it plays!

Hey Forceofnature1, thanks for the positive feedback!

Yep, I've played this deck many times over the past decade. It was my first commander deck, way back in 2011, and I've continued updating it over time. Riku's definitely a target when he comes out but there are so many other sources of replication that I can often still be a threat with big board presence without him.

Hmm, I'm not super into chaos playstyles myself but if you were looking to go in that direction I'm thinking you'd want things that let you cast spells for free so you could save your mana to copy those spells or copy the creatures as they enter the battlefield. Things like:

• Sunbird's Invocation
• Etali, Primal Storm
• Chaos Wand
• Mind's Dilation

You could also look at things that have this effort for all players, banking on your ability to create additional copies of spells, letting you pull ahead of other players in value:

• Knowledge Pool
• Eye of the Storm
• Wild Evocation
• Possibility Storm

Trying to think of other chaotic effects - maybe Genesis Ultimatum ? You could copy the Ultimatum itself, plus any creatures that ETB from it you could make copies of, too.

You mentioned reworking your Riku deck with Sakashima at the helm - did it become mono-blue or did you use the new Sakashima partnered with someone green/red?

Hey hey sorry it took so long to get back to you. I paired her with Tana, the Bloodsower and that was interesting.

I picked up the quandrix and prixmari precons and gotta say they seem to break down Riku into his two halves pretty well. One is basically spellslinger and the other creature copies and they both have a lot of support. Played both separately and really like the way they play, wondering if you had gotten your hands on them yet and if you were incorporating them into Riku.