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Format: Commander

Commander: Riku of Many Paths

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur midrange strategy built around Riku of Many Paths, leveraging a dense suite of modal spells, Spree cards, and Room enchantments to generate compounding value. In the opening turns, the deck establishes its mana base using green ramp creatures and basic land fixers. Once Riku enters the battlefield on turn 3, subsequent modal spells trigger Riku's ability to create 1/1 flying Bird tokens, exile cards for impulse advantage, and grow Riku with +1/+1 counters and trample. The deck controls the tempo of the game using versatile modal interaction such as Three Steps Ahead, Cryptic Command, and Prismari Charm, disrupting key opposing threats while simultaneously advancing its own board state. As the token swarm expands and Room enchantments like Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate unlock, the deck transitions into combat pressure, using team buffs and double strike to eliminate opponents across multiple attack steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Agatha's Champion
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Beanstalk Wurm // Plant Beans
  • 1 Brimstone Roundup
  • 1 Bumi Bash
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Choose Your Weapon
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Coliseum Behemoth
  • 1 Collective Defiance
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Earth-Cult Elemental
  • 1 Ember Island Production
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Erratic Apparition
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Ghostly Keybearer
  • 1 Giantfall
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf's Embrace
  • 1 Glassworks // Shattered Yard
  • 1 Glorfindel, Dauntless Rescuer
  • 1 Glorious Decay
  • 1 House Cartographer
  • 1 Ice Magic
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Infernal Phantom
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration
  • 1 Iron-Fist Pulverizer
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jailbreak Scheme
  • 1 Keys to the House
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Meat Locker // Drowned Diner
  • 1 Mister Hyde, Monster Within
  • 1 Moldering Gym // Weight Room
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Overwhelming Surge
  • 1 Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery
  • 1 Pelargir Survivor
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Rampaging Soulrager
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Riku of Many Paths
  • 1 Roaring Furnace // Steaming Sauna
  • 1 Ruinous Rampage
  • 1 Sarkhan's Resolve
  • 1 Seize Opportunity
  • 1 Slight Malfunction
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrapact Intimidator
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate
  • 1 Tifa's Limit Break
  • 1 Trial of Agony
  • 1 Twist Reality
  • 1 Underwater Tunnel // Slimy Aquarium
  • 1 Unforgiving Aim
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Wizard's Spellbook
  • 1 You Find a Cursed Idol
  • 1 You Find the Villains' Lair
  • 1 You Happen On a Glade
  • 1 You Meet in a Tavern
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach
  • 1 Zookeeper Mechan