Shadows Over Innistrad

Pretty excited to add Second Harvest to the doubling arsenal. Pulled a Game Trail in my fatpack, so adding that too.

It took me a while Steaditup, but I finally added See the Unwritten. I agree, that'll be a strong performer in EDH. Extra excited to double it.

I appreciate the cool Glen Elendra Archmage + Melira, Sylvok Outcast combo SlapMyBuns, but I'm going to pass on it. I'd prefer to have a card more aligned to the overall theme than to add Melira just to combo with Glen Elendra. I get enough interactions with Glen Elendra through the flicker mechanics already built into the deck.

While I was at it, I added a Sower of Temptation and an Alchemist's Refuge for some spicy options.

Love your deck! :)

With all that card draw, why don't you play with Reliquary Tower?

Good catch Hipparchos! I typically include Reliquary Tower as a staple in all my commander decks but must have missed it here. Corrected now!

No worries! I've tested your deck on XMage several times, but i really missed that card though. ;)

What do you think about Altered Ego?

As you already have Genesis, what do you think about Anger and Wonder?

Hey Hipparchos, I think Altered Ego is great! A -cost clone that can't be countered, with an optional to make it bigger? And if you copy it with Riku, it'll copy the cost of ! Pretty solid addition, I've added it :)

I do run Genesis but I don't think all the Incarnations are worth it. Don't get me wrong, Anger and Wonder do good things, but it's always risky since I have no discard outlets and must rely on them dying... but my opponents will try to prevent that from happening. Besides their value in the graveyard, the Incarnations don't do much for the overall gameplan. There's no ETB trigger and no great benefit to copying them. Though he's not on strategy, I like Genesis a lot for the graveyard recursion of something important, but I'm typically hoping for Birthing Pod or Eldritch Evolution to get him there.

I'm happy you answered me, finally! ;-P

Indeed Altered Ego is a great card, but i've cut it for Dack's Duplicate in my deck. Also you misunderstand the ruling here. The copy comes into play w/o counters. If the creature had in its mana cost, must be . Note this is different from an found in the mana cost of a copied spell. For example when you cast Comet Storm, then the value of gets copied.

Maybe you want to swap Genesis for Loaming Shaman? It's an ETB effect and you have an answer to Mill decks.

Oh snap, you're totally right Hipparchos! Indeed the copy rules are different between creature and spell . I'm already running Dack's Duplicate so I might just leave Altered Ego in as another clone option that cannot be countered.

Although, I need to make room for Panharmonicon when the new set comes out (doubles a creature's ETB trigger and doubles Riku's trigger to copy a non-token creature) so maybe Altered Ego will be the one to go.

This looks awesome, so, so awesome +1.I needed to find some cool cards that changed my riku game plan a little. Think i've found a few on here. Not gonna revamp my whole deck, but definitely there are at least 6-7 cards i could see myself adding from this list.

I have yet to see the table with all of doubling season, parallel lives and flameshadow conjuring (don't have primal vigor yet and haven't figured what to cut for panharmonicon yet), but it seems like the board would get pretty crazy lol

May i ask why there's no Worldly Tutor and/or Mystical Tutor?

Also, if Forkbeard is correct and this is more of a flicker riku deck than a copy riku deck(what i have) then it may be worth adding in Deadeye Navigator :)

Has anyone here considered playing Dual Nature in a riku deck?

The only downside i could see with it is while Progenitor Mimic's are in play. The opponent would just kill the original card and not target a token.

Thanks!