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"Encore, Encore!" Rionya, Fire Dancer EDH

Commander / EDH* Mono-Red

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Commander: Rionya, Fire Dancer

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Enchantment (2)

Welcome to the amazing Theater of Theatrics! Our lead role this evening will be played by Rionya, the fire-dancing pink-haired goddess we didn't know we needed and probably don't deserve but received anyway from Commander 2021. If you read closely, the amount of tokens you receive from her "beginning of combat" trigger will always be one plus the number of instants and sorceries you've cast that turn. So even if that number is zero, you will get 0+1 copies. The fact that you bare minimum, always get one copy of a creature, means that Rionya can go infinite with cards like Combat Celebrant and Port Razer, without needing to cast any other spells.

But this is why Rionya is so good, because all of the good red cards that make the color a power house in Commander all synergize so well with her already. Dockside Extortionist and Priest of Urabrask will give you an insane amount of mana once you copy them at the beginning of combat, but even if you don't attack and let's say, put all that mana into Aggravated Assault, then you will receive another combat, more token copies, and therefore infinite mana and combat steps!

With so many ETB triggers, sorceries like Twinflame and Heat Shimmer are really good for the deck; get another Extortionist, Inferno Titan, Solemn Simulacrum, all good targets. And while we still want to sling spells, a red staple like Dualcaster Mage will be amazing here, and will offer an infinite combo with the aforementioned sorceries!

And spell slinging we shall do, cause this deck will be mana-hungry and will need all the cheap, efficient cantrips we can get, which brings in another powerhouse in this list; Birgi, God of Storytelling. Her ability will make it so we never lose too much, if any, mana off of casting our cantrips, digging for gas, digging for that win. And while at first I wanted to put Grinning Ignus in this deck to have yet another combo, it seemed like a stretch to put a useless card otherwise in the list. But once I thought about it, Grinning Ignus is decent value, cause let's say you get three copies at the beginning of combat. Each of those copies has the Ignus's ability, so you pay (R), return the token to your hand and get (2)(R) to your pool, which you can then spend the red to return the other token to your hand, now giving you (5)(R), return the other one and now you have (6)(R) potentially every turn. So, with both cards being good in the deck, that's another synergistic combo!

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