Riku's Replicants

Commander / EDH Romer

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Streets of New Capenna —May 31, 2022

Let's reduce mana costs, swap things I can't copy (artifacts) for things I can (creatures) and add some combo-y creatures in place of general "good stuff."

• Add Topiary Stomper, remove Farhaven Elf. Bigger body, prettier art.
• Add An Offer You Can't Refuse, remove Disallow. Cheaper.
• Add Undercover Operative, remove Hornet Queen. More clones! Let's try this new one from New Capenna.
• Add Augmenter Pugilist  ^Flip, remove Giant Adephage. Pugilist is a good trample creature that gets bigger as the game goes longer, that's cheap enough to make a copy of. Later game, I can use the flip side to make all my creatures Biovisionary for a win. I always loved Giant Adephage but it's real expensive to cast and copy.
• Add Snapcaster Mage, remove Lithoform Engine. Lithoform is so expensive to cast and then activate. I'd rather just use Snappy to get something sweet back from my graveyard... then copy it. Or copy him. Or both!
• Add Zealous Conscripts, remove Wurmcoil Engine. Sad to lose Wurmcoil but Conscripts goes infinite with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• Add Bounding Krasis, remove Thassa, Deep-Dwelling. Speaking of going infinite with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker...
• Add Pestermite, remove Avenger of Zendikar. Speaking of going infinite with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker...
• Add Deceiver Exarch, remove Craterhoof Behemoth. Speaking of going infinite with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker...
• Add Splinter Twin, remove Duplicant. Backup plan: Splinter Twin can also fill the role of Kiki-Jiki in all those combos above.
• Add Birds of Paradise, remove Arcane Signet. Swapping for something I can copy.
• Add Sylvan Caryatid, remove Skyshroud Claim. Lowing my ramp curve but keeping it copy-able.
• Add Dockside Extortionist, remove Gilded Drake. Amazing ramp, even better when doubled or cloned. I don't think I want this to be the deck that has a bunch of Gilded Drakes in play.
• Add Rattleclaw Mystic, remove The Great Henge. I can't copy the Great Henge, but I can copy a Shaman.
• Add Coiling Oracle, remove Ardent Elementalist. Reducing my curve with something that's either card draw or ramp.
• Add Imperial Recruiter, remove Worldly Tutor. Swapping a creature tutor I can't copy for one that I can. Do you know which creatures have power 2 or less? Clones. Thanks to Modern Horizons 2 for making Imperial Recruiter affordable!
• Add Urban Evolution, remove Consecrated Sphinx. Slight curve reduction and instant benefit, vs hoping my playgroup leaves the Sphinx in play.
• Add Guided Passage, remove Mirage Mirror. Guided Passage is such a fun minigame or political tool, I have to add it back in.
• Add Unravel the Aether, remove Nature's Claim. Helps deal with indestructible Enchantment Gods and prevents graveyard recursion.
• Add Vizier of Many Faces, remove Mirror March. Adding another clone. Mirror March is expensive to initially cast and I have bad luck at flipping coins.
• Add Island, remove Littjara Mirrorlake. Mirrorlake is just too slow and expensive. Give me a basic back.
• Add Forest, remove Spellseeker. Increasing land count, decreasing tutors.