Rishkar's Expertise

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

You may cast a card with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Combos

• Earthquake Dragon + Rishkar's Expertise + Thrakkus the Butcher

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

SufferFromEDHD on Ayumi, the Last Voltron

1 week ago

Was distracted by the Ferocious trigger. Rishkar's Expertise, Hunter's Prowess or Soul's Majesty... I'm thinking Rishkar.

Thrun is truly mythic. The only reason Miri makes an appearance here is because Forestwalk. Two excellent cards that have been power creeped out of the scene.

Sylvan Safekeeper and Xantid Swarm are my go-to Green Sun's Zenith targets. It doesn't fit here because I have no land/graveyard synergy to recycle and reuse.

Legolas's Quick Reflexes could this be anymore pushed? The split second alone is worth it. The untap is very green. Hexproof is what it's all about. Reach is a freebie. The tap fight effect reminds me of the niche Laccolith from Nemesis. I own 0 Other Universe products. I am clearly missing out on power but

DemonDragonJ on Life Springs Eternal

1 week ago

Profet93, Chromatic Lantern is one of my favorite cards, so I like having it in my decks, for sentimental value.

The Ozolith is nice, but this deck does not quite have a sufficient focus on counters to justify it being included in this deck.

I very dearly wanted to put Heroic Intervention in this deck, but I could not quite find room, for it, unfortunately; Rishkar's Expertise is awesome, and definitely would be a great card, for this deck, again, if I can find room, for it.

Profet93 on Life Springs Eternal

1 week ago

DemonDragonJ

Pardon the delayed response. Have you considered removing 1-2 lands given ur avg cmc of 3.62? You could add more draw or ramp in it's place, that way you are more likely to get the lands you need with less risk of being flooded. U r in green so it's worth noting.

Chromatic Lantern - The trap of lantern. If it helps you enough to warrant it's inclusion, then there is usually a landbase issue. With having only 2 colors, one of them being green, I don't see it's purpose in the deck. Any other 3 drop ramp spell or better yet, Mind Stone can take it's place. Alternatively, Nature's Lore and Cultivate are better alternatives as artifacts can be removed/nullified.

Elder Garagoth - I say add in him and see how he plays. A bit expensive IMO but worth seeing how it plays out.

Rishkar's Expertise - Great card for your commander, draw and tempo all in 1.

The Ozolith - While idk much about 1/1 counters or tokens, I think this could work in ur build.

Heroic Intervention - For the eventual wipe

Belfore on Mo' Counters, Mo' Mana, Mo' Monsters! *Help

2 months ago

I would drop the lands that aren't allowed in his deck for lands like War Room, Karn's Bastion, Boseiju, Who Endures, Scavenger Grounds, Opal Palace, Myriad Landscape, and Blighted Woodland. And for the ones that aren't allowed you can drop for just basic forests. Land count is pretty strong. For draw along with war room there is Garruk's Uprising, Guardian Project, Stocking the Pantry, Greater Good, Lifecrafter's Bestiary, Rishkar's Expertise (which feels like a flavor win), Return of the Wildspeaker, Beast Whisperer, and I would say Toski, Bearer of Secrets is surprisingly useful depending on how often you get through.

YouDontKnowMu on BlinkLantza

3 months ago

I'll definitely look into Communal Brewing that seems wild without any "big" drawbacks

I have Legion's Initiative in my maybeboard, but did'nt saw the blink as defensive option, I'm going to switch for Legion's Initiative instead of Another Round

I updated the list to integrate :

• Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip instead of Parting Gust -> Didn't had many tutors nor revival from Graveyard + good transofrmation. Parting Gust seemed to tricky to play with 2 whites needed and I fell like I already have enough blink.

• Silverback Elder Instead of Hulking Raptor -> more control, since Hulking doesn't discover that much + was discoverable with pantlaza, didn't feel like a card I wanted to get with Discoveries

• Guardian Project instead of Rishkar's Expertise -> more draw on the long run, discoverable by Pantlaza, and don't need to already have a big Dino to work

• Bonders' Enclave instead of Temple of the False God -> less slow + draw engine

Considering to add :

• Warstorm Surge -> big damages if I blink all my board... and lots of control anyway Maybe instead of Lightning Greaves

• Heroic Intervention -> fore more protection, but I don't see what to cut.. Maybe a land, as you said

PuritanPuree on Dionus? You Barely Know Us!

3 months ago

Profet93 Thanks for the feedback!

Elixir should absolutely be in the deck. I own a few copies and I still always forget it exists.

Incubator's effect hasn't been needed. The deck can produce such a ludicrous amount of mana that the cost reduction hasn't been necessary.

Price of Earthcraft aside (which I know is a little rich considering I have Gaae's Cradle in the deck, but I've had that thing for years), I think I prefer the creature-based ways to tap my dudes without tap abilities such as Heritage Druid. If it could untap any land, I could easily see it being an auto-include. Probably something I'd proxy up and test out.

Glimpse is absolutely a contender, I think I just need to get some more actual reps in with the deck to figure out if I'd rather have it or something like Rishkar's Expertise in the deck.

Warden is super solid, I just like having access to the ability to shut off certain things that Elvish Hunter provides. Might chalk this one up to "I need more reps" to see if Hunter's ability is super necessary.

Craeter on

5 months ago

This list looks pretty solid. The one thing I wonder is if it could benefit from some creatures with power / toughness equal to the number of lands like Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

Also is there enough Draw? Maybe Rishkar's Expertise or Shamanic Revelation

Craeter on The Conjunction of the Spheres

5 months ago

Profet93 Yup The Magic Mirror gets cheated out with the Commander, the discount is ignored here. It takes a few turns to start really driving the value, but the no max hand size is also nice.

Rishkar's Expertise is an interesting suggestion. It would probably result in discarded cards going over the max hand size. But that doesn't usually matter with 100 card libraries. So having the extra options could definitely be a boon. Not a whole lot of 5 cost things to cheat out, but there is some.

This deck sometimes runs out of steam depending on the draw. So I'll find something to cut for Riahkar's and see if it performs even better from the added draw.

Thanks for the suggestion!