Que Riku 2: The Rikuning

Commander / EDH* Control Goodstuff RUG (Temur) Storm Tempo

NoSoyYucateco

Instant (25)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cerebral Vortex
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Time Stop
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Wipe Away

Creature (8)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Curious Homunculus  ^Flip
• 1x Electrostatic Field
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist

Sorcery (25)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Ignite Memories
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Shreds of Sanity
• 1x Summer Bloom
• 1x Tidings

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Holistic Wisdom
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Artifact (2)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 7x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 8x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Wooded Foothills

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Maybeboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Delay
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Sublime Epiphany

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Double Vision
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Song of Creation
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Creature (1)

• 1x Biovisionary

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Quasiduplicate

Artifact (2)

• 1x Bosium Strip
• 1x Isochron Scepter

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My first Riku deck was centered around creatures with ETB effects. It quickly became my favorite deck, and after playing with it for a few years, I want to explore the other side of Riku with this spellslinger build. But rather than build a low-curve deck full of cantrips, storm cards, or extra turns, I wanted to make the deck more interactive and not quite as powerful. It still plays like a classic storm deck, but aims to play with the board a bit before comboing off.

The result is a more grindy control/tempo deck that pushes to always have more lands in play and more cards in hand than anyone else at the table--Temur excess at its finest.

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Deck Mechanics

Ramp

• In the early game, this deck cheats out extra lands with green sorceries and cheap enchantments like Exploration and Burgeoning. Bonus points for a turn 2 Day's Undoing after dropping one of these on turn 1.

• Often I'll have a lot of lands in hand. Summer Bloom is a great sorcery for getting these into play, and has more deck synergy than Azusa, Lost but Seeking.

• Having the right balance of colored mana is critical in the end-game, so I've kept lands that produce colorless mana down to Boseiju, Who Shelters All, Reliquary Tower, and Strip Mine.

Draw

• All of the draw in this deck is handled with instants and sorceries for maximum synergy. Generally speaking, cantrips like Brainstorm are used to dig for bigger draw cards like Tidings and Recurring Insight, until you're ready to start going off.

Win

• Later in the game, ramp is telescoped with effects that reduce the cost of instants and sorceries. Creatures like Goblin Electromancer can be copied with Riku for greater impact.

• Other creatures like Guttersnipe and Electrostatic Field deal damage for each instant or sorcery spell cast.

• The deck also has many ways to reuse instants and sorceries from the graveyard, such as Past in Flames, Mizzix's Mastery, and Regrowth effects. Speaking of recursion, Holistic Wisdom is an absolute bomb in this deck. It's one of my favorite underplayed cards.

• Rather than extra turns, the deck uses cards like Turnabout and Early Harvest to untap lands. They can usually be recurred multiple times during my final turn to keep the "Storm" going.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Experience Token, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
Folders	Other People's Stuff