Rivaz (insta)

Format: Commander

Commander: Rivaz of the Claw

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Rivaz of the Claw is a Dragon-recursion commander who turns the graveyard into a second hand. The deck's primary plan is to loot Dragons into the bin early, then use Rivaz to cast one back each turn, while Dragon-synergy permanents (Dragon Tempest, Lathliss, Scourge of the Throne) convert that board presence into pings, tokens, and extra combats. Secondary paths are mass reanimation with Living Death/Patriarch's Bidding and a late Exsanguinate. The deck has no hidden commander and no infinite combos; it wins through beatdown and value. Rivaz is the engine and mana source, but other reanimation spells allow the deck to continue if he is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Backdraft Hellkite
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Boneyard Scourge
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cathartic Pyre
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fang, Roku's Companion
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inferno of the Star Mounts
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ran and Shaw
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Runehorn Hellkite
  • 1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon