Oh look, it's another Riku of Two Reflections deck. I bet it's some degenerate pile where you drop a bunch of mana accelerants so you can play a bunch of counterspells and then toss out Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Zealous Conscripts and, oh, hey, you win! Good for you! Now you have no friends...
Well, isn't that cute? But it's wrong!
This is Riku of Two Reflections but when the game's over you'll still have friends, your parents will still be proud of you and your significant other won't leave you for Grand Prix Montreal 2017 champion Kevin Jones. ...that's a frightening thought, isn't it?
Does your opponent have a cool creature on board that you want, but because this is Magic the Gathering, Change of Heart isn't a legal card? Terrified of their Akroma or Baneslayer Angel and want to even the playing field? Just drop in a Vizier of Many Faces or a
Stunt Double
and all your problems will be solved! Even better, why not make a copy of that clone with Riku of Two Reflections? Still not enough? Well, with Parallel Lives you'll get double the value! Wait, you want more? Why not cast Second Harvest and double the tokens you've got, and you can copy that Second Harvest with Riku of Two Reflections! Or do the same thing with Parallel Evolution! It's even got flashback, so you can do it again later! And guess what? Parallel Lives doubles those tokens even more!
That sounds like a lot of math... I hope you've still got that old TI-83.
Wait, what's that? You don't want a ridiculous amount of copies of an awesome creature? You want to drop a creature onto the board and end up with an army? That's cool too, that's why there's Avenger of Zendikar! But if you're going to drop that Hayao Miyazaki monstrosity onto the battlefield, why not double up by copying it with Riku of Two Reflections? Or just hit it with a Rite of Replication. Hell, why not kick that sucker and get five Avenger of Zendikar? Copy that kicked Rite of Replication with Riku of Two Reflections and now you've got ten! Let's not forget that Panharmonicon doubles all of those enter the battlefield triggers, and I feel that since Parallel Lives being on board is kind of a given, well...wow. That's a lot of tokens. And those tokens create tokens! You might need more than a TI-83 for this...Just imagine if you drop a Craterhoof Behemoth after that? Just one, no need to go crazy with the copying. Or you could, that's fine too. It seems you're a big fan of doing math...
But wait, how are we paying for all of this? It sounds really expensive...Don't worry about it, we've got infinite mana. Wait, what? That's right! With the power of Palinchron we can generate as much mana as we want so that we can do crazy things like double Avenger of Zendikar a billion times. Wait, it's still not making sense? Oh, right, that's because Palinchron needs his best friend in the whole multiverse Deadeye Navigator. Just pair those two up like they're the couple from high school you thought would get married right after graduation and then watch them be on again, off again more times than Jackie and Kelso. Seriously, just blink Palinchron like a billion times. Now you've got more mana than the United States has debt. Then you can pair Deadeye Navigator with anything else you want, like Avenger of Zendikar! And guess what? You can copy whatever you're blinking with Riku of Two Reflections for even more value!
Countless copies of things that makes countless numbers of tokens with a ridiculous amount of mana... Forget the TI-83, this is starting to get to some quantum mechanics level of stuff to keep track of...
Of course, this is Riku of Two Reflections and it's impossible to escape some degree of degeneracy. While Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker can create a copy of one of those ridiculous creatures you've been creating copies of like it's Rei Ayanami, the option of initiating an infinite combo with Zealous Conscripts is always a possibility. While it's certainly not as flashy as ripping a hole in space-time with the insanely complicated math you're having to calculate and the unbelievable amount of tokens you've got to keep track of, sometimes you've just got someone at the table who doesn't believe in having fun and you've got to beat them to the punch. Just remember, once they leave the table because This is bullshit! This isn't fun! you can start a new game and you'll still have friends, your parents will still be proud of you and your significant other won't have left you for Grand Prix Montreal 2017 champion Kevin Jones.
But hey, I hope you had a fun time reading this and that it was enough to give a good overview of what to expect from this deck. Comments and suggestions are always welcome, and hey! I've even got a YouTube channel where you can see this and several other decks of mine in action. It might even be a better way to gauge how well the deck performs in certain situations, so it's definitely worth a look.
Removed:
- Imperial Recruiter
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- Vedalken Orrery
- Mana Vault
- Thassa, God of the Sea
- Vexing Shusher
- Dack Fayden
- Crucible of Worlds
- Decree of Annihilation
- Counterspell
- Pestermite
- Spell Crumple
- Intuition
- Pact of Negation
- Rewind
- Hinder
- All Is Dust
- Karn Liberated
- Splinter Twin
- Time Warp
- Jace Beleren
- Fire-Lit Thicket
- Flooded Grove
- Cascade Bluffs
- Rootbound Crag
- Sulfur Falls
- Hinterland Harbor
- Glen Elendra Archmage
- Gruul Signet
- Izzet Signet
- Simic Signet
- Tezzeret the Seeker
Added
- Vizier of Many Faces
- Shamanic Revelation
- Dacks Duplicate
- Stunt Double
- Avenger of Zendikar
- Craterhoof Behemoth
- Rite of Replication
- Parallel Lives
- Second Harvest
- Saheeli's Artistry
- Charmbreaker Devils
- Prismatic Omen
- Rangers Path
- Skyshroud Claim
- Twincast
- Increasing Vengeance
- Praetors Counsel
- Green Suns Zenith
- Seedborn Muse
- Parallel Evolution
- Panharmonicon
- 4x Forest
- 2x Island
- Cinder Glade
- Mountain
- Palinchron
- Nissa, Worldwaker
