Modal Mayhem by user9196485

Format: Commander

Commander: Riku of Many Paths

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

A Temur modal-spellslinger built to win with one giant chain turn. Every "choose one or more" spell in the 99 feeds Riku of Many Paths's trigger, turning each mode into a 1/1 Bird token, an exiled card to play, and a +1/+1 counter on Riku - so multi-mode cards like Fiery Confluence, Prismari Command, Season of Weaving, and Great Train Heist act as miniature engines. The deck layers classic instant/sorcery payoffs on top: Talrand, Sky Summoner Drakes, Metallurgic Summonings Constructs, Rite of the Dragoncaller Dragons, Archmage Emeritus and Niv-Mizzet, Parun draw, and Guttersnipe/Coruscation Mage/Caldera Pyremaw table burn. A normal game develops a spells-matter board, lets Riku's exile pile stock a hand-sized gas reserve, then detonates: flash-cast modal spells via Valley Floodcaller, untapping the swarm between casts, and close with extra combats from Great Train Heist and entwined Savage Beating. There are no infinite loops - the kill is spell-density, not a two-card combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Ashling's Command
  • 1 Atarka's Command
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bountiful Landscape
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Caldera Pyremaw
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clan Defiance
  • 1 Collective Defiance
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Decisive Denial
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Evolution Charm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hidden Cataract
  • 1 Hidden Nursery
  • 1 Hidden Volcano
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Journey of Discovery
  • 1 Kamahl's Will
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Primal Command
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Riku of Many Paths
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rootcast Apprenticeship
  • 1 Savage Alliance
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Season of Renewal
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Season of the Bold
  • 1 Siege Smash
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Survivors' Bond
  • 1 Swarm Intelligence
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thirsting Roots
  • 1 Titania's Command
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Verdant Confluence
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 You Happen On a Glade