Whose Turn is it? Riku's Turn

Commander / EDH Combo RUG (Temur)

NickyBolas

Other (40)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 4x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Extra Turns (7)

• 1x Capture of Jingzhou
• 1x Plow Under
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Walk the Aeons

Recursion (14)

• 1x Anarchist
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Bloodwater Entity
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Cast Through Time
• 1x Chandra, the Firebrand
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Remand
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Removal/Control (11)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Swan Song

Draw/Tutor (7)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Runaway Train (8)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

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Title

Concept

Put on a one-man turn-taking show. For The Trinisphere's "Battle of the Brews - Riku" episode.

How It Plays

Chain together extra-turn effects with the help of spell doubling, rebounding, and recurring. Stick a mana doubling effect that would, in normal circumstances, propel your opponents into the late game... but only if they get another turn! Once you start chaining multiple duplicating extra turns; play cards that, under normal circumstances, would take too long to become game-winning threats like Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Chandra, Torch of Defiance.

Card Selection

Extra Turns

The main modus operandi of this deck will be taking extra turns. We run all of the ones which remain in the graveyard Time Warp, Temporal Manipulation, Capture of Jingzhou, Walk the Aeons able to be regrown by our Recursion packages, and a few that have cost reduction built-in like Temporal Trespass and Temporal Mastery.

We steer clear of the overpriced ones Time Stretch and Part the Waterveil as we don't have an easy way to cheat them into play.

Recursion

Once we start time warping, hopefully doubled by Riku's ability, we'll start recurring them with creatures like Eternal Witness, Archaeomancer, Izzet Chronarch and even Anarchist. One of my favorite is Bloodwater Entity. It's a bit trickier putting the card on top of your deck, but the flying prowess body is worth the narrower play.

Runaway Train

Now that we can reliable take dozens of turns in a row, we need something that will win the game during that time while still synergizing with the deck when not in extra turns.

• Regal Behemoth doubles our mana to facilitate those hungry regrowth-time warp plays as well as grant us Monarch to draw us additional cards throughout our extra turns.
• Swarm Intelligence and Cast Through Time give us a ton of extra value from our Time Warp effects, and synergize well together since Rebound spells are "cast" again.
• Sunbird's Invocation allows us to "cascade" for more value off of Time Warps (once again "casting" the spell to trigger Swarm Intelligence).
• As Foretold normally is a card that needs to be played early to be relevant, but when we're getting extra upkeeps we'll be able to start casting Time Warps for free after the first few extra turns.
• Jace, the Mind Sculptor has a player-killing ultimate, draws us extra cards to keep the extra-turn machine churning, and can bounce one of our recursion creatures to hand so we can replay them and regrow a Time Warp which, when paying for Riku's trigger, means you can go infinite by alternating between +2 and -1.
• Chandra, Torch of Defiance has a little less synergy, but her abilities are still decent, and her Ult can add "Deal 5 Damage" to your Time Warps.
• Chandra, the Firebrand has that spell doubling roll-down which is pretty decent. If you roll her down and pay for Riku's triggered ability on a Time Warp effect, you can get 3 extra turns which allows her enough time to roll back up to 3 and roll down again, generating a soft-infinite combo (assuming you're able to regrow your Time Warp)
• Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius can draw a ton of cards while dealing enough damage to close out the game in a few turns.
• Emrakul, the Promised End is just in there for flavor. When you start going soft-infinite and people start asking "How does your deck win?" just promise them end is near.
• Ancestral Vision is another card whose down-side is negated by the fact that we'll be taking extra turns.

Ramp

We can lean a little harder on "Group Hug" style ramp spells that are highly explosive due to the fact that we plan on taking more turns than our opponents.

• Mana Flare and Heartbeat of Spring allow us to double our mana production on the cheap. Usually these cards can cause the game to spiral out of control, but if played in conjunction with a Time Warp, we get first dibs on all that sweet sweet mana. These are usually the catalyst to kick-start the dozen-turn stretches that could allow us to start chaining extra turns as early as Turn 5.
• Rites of Flourishing seems like a group hug card, but we'll be taking as many turns as all of our opponents combined.
• Plasm Capture and Mana Drain also provide us methods to set up explosive turns where we can Time Warp and play a "Runaway Train" piece to kick-start their value generation.

Gameplay

Coming Soon.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.59
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, The Monarch