Riku by Sothera

Format: Commander

Commander: Riku of Two Reflections

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Temur deck combines Dragon tribal aggression with enter-the-battlefield duplication and direct burn triggers. Led by Riku of Two Reflections, the deck leverages early ramp and tribal cost reducers such as Urza's Incubator, Dragonspeaker Shaman, and Dragonlord's Servant to deploy massive flying threats ahead of curve. Rather than relying on fragile infinite combos, the strategy focuses on compounding board presence through duplicate engines like Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, and Riku itself. Once an engine is established, playing heavy hitters like Terror of the Peaks, Scourge of Valkas, and Dragon Tempest turns every creature into high-damage direct removal and face burn. The deck's flying bodies provide decisive aerial combat pressure to quickly close out the game over one to two combat steps. While vulnerable to well-timed board wipes during tap-out turns, its density of standalone threats ensures high resilience and rapid recovery.

Decklist (99 cards)

• 1 Aether Vial
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Auroral Procession
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory
• 1 Burgeoning
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Cryptolith Rite
• 1 Curse of the Swine
• 1 Deceptive Frostkite
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Dracogenesis
• 1 Dragon Tempest
• 1 Dragon's Hoard
• 1 Dragonback Assault
• 1 Dragonlord Atarka
• 1 Dragonlord's Servant
• 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fated Firepower
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 6 Forest
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Frontier Siege
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Hammerhead Tyrant
• 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Hellkite Courser
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Impostor Syndrome
• 4 Island
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1 Magmatic Hellkite
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Migration Path
• 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
• 1 Mirror Box
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Mox Jasper
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1 Nogi, Draco-Zealot
• 1 Opportunistic Dragon
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Rapacious Dragon
• 1 Redirect
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Riku of Two Reflections
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
• 1 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
• 1 Scorched Geyser
• 1 Scourge of Valkas
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spinerock Tyrant
• 1 Spit Flame
• 1 Storm's Wrath
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
• 1 Temur Ascendancy
• 1 Temur Battlecrier
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Thunderbreak Regent
• 1 Twinning Staff
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 Ureni of the Unwritten
• 1 Ureni, the Song Unending
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Yavimaya Coast