Riku of Twin Decks: Creature Avalanche
An Experiment of Divergent Builds
This is half of a pair of decks for Riku of Two Reflections, each exploring a focus on half of his ability. The mirror deck is located here.
This Riku deck is built around creatures/permanents and uses warp world / primal surge / genesis wave to great effect. Copying one of these spells with Riku generates a huge amount of triggers, and in the case of a copied primal surge, mitigates the drawback of playing other non-permanents.
This deck is being posted for record keeping, but I welcome suggestions.
Hidden Gems:
Mindwrack Liege does two things. First and foremost, This keeps clones from dying as a state based effect from 0 toughness off of Warp World, allowing Riku to trigger and copy any creature that came in...again. Second, it can act as a backup prophet of kruphix and/or overall cost reduction. I think paying UG for a double fact or fiction is worthwhile.
This is the Riku list I've been enjoying myself with for a couple months. First, the list
Seedborn Muse + Leyline of Anticipation.
Take extra turns, but without being "that guy" because it's still their turn. Gets better if you copied Seedborn Muse with a clone or Riku (or copied it with Riku then cloned it and copied the clone). Each copy multiplies your available mana by more. Put this mana into a big Genesis Wave or Comet Storm to probably win during their untap step.
Psychosis Crawler + Consecrated Sphinx
Everyone likes drawing cards. Now you draw more cards! Add in Temple Bell, Nin the Pain Artist, and Dragon Mage for massive damage. Also works well with Jin-Gitaxias. Niv-Mizzet gives redundancy.
Spike Weaver + forgotten ancient
FOG. FOG EVERYWHERE FOREVER. (dies to removal or too many opponents, but shuts down Omnath HARD)
Sylvan Library + Abundance
Draw 3 cards of your choice per turn.
Warstorm Surge + .....Pretty much anything
Chancellor of the Forge - lots of damage
Acidic Slime - Kill a creature too
Psychosis Crawler - Hilarious after a Nin, the pain artist activation
Inferno Titan - even more damage
Blightsteel Colossus - Win.
NOTE: the CREATURE deals the damage. Yeah, warstorm surge is insane.
Mind over Matter + Temple Bell / Niv-Mizzet / Nin the Pain Artist + Psychosis Crawler / Birthing Pod
Temple Bell / Niv-Mizzet - Win. This one is more a victim of circumstance but whatever.
Nin + Crawler - Use Nin on crawler to draw a bunch and hit opponents. Discard all those cards to untap as many lands as possible and Nin. Repeat. Repeat Again. Win.
Birthing Pod - More activations out of this monster of a card is well worth discarding one of the extra lands in your hand.
An Experiment of Divergent Builds
This is half of a pair of decks for Riku of Two Reflections, each exploring a focus on half of his ability. The mirror deck is located here.
This Riku deck is built around creatures/permanents and uses warp world / primal surge / genesis wave to great effect. Copying one of these spells with Riku generates a huge amount of triggers, and in the case of a copied primal surge, mitigates the drawback of playing other non-permanents.
1 Riku of Two Reflections
Creatures (41)
1 Acidic Slime
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Biovisionary
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Bloom Tender
1 Body Double
1 Chancellor of the Forge
1 Clever Impersonator
1 Coiling Oracle
1 Courser of Kruphix
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Deadeye Navigator
1 Deadwood Treefolk
1 Diluvian Primordial
1 Dualcaster Mage
1 Duplicant
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Eternal Witness
1 Farhaven Elf
1 Fierce Empath
1 Hornet Queen
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Mindwrack Liege
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Maelstrom Wanderer
1 Master of Waves
1 Muldrifter
1 Oracle of Mul-Daya
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Prime Speaker Zegana
1 Progenitor Mimic
1 Prophet of Kruphix
1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Sakashima the Imposter
1 Sakura-tribe Elder
1 Sphinx of Uthuun
1 Temur Sabertooth
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Wood Elves
1 Birthing Pod
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 Conjurer's Closet
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Proteus Staff
1 Simic Signet
1 Sol Ring
1 Stronic Resonator
Enchantments (6)
1 Parallel Lives
1 Sneak Attack
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Sylvan Library
1 Temur Ascendancy
1 Warstorm Surge
Non-Permanents (3)
1 Genesis Wave
1 Primal Surge
1 Warp World
Lands (41)
1 Alchemist's Refuge
1 Breeding Pool
1 Command Tower
11 Forest
1 Halimar Depths
8 Island
1 Khalni Garden
1 Misty Rainforest
6 Mountain
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Shivan Reef
1 Stem Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Temple of Abandon
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Tropical Island
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Coast
This deck is being posted for record keeping, but I welcome suggestions.
Hidden Gems:
This is the Riku list I've been enjoying myself with for a couple months. First, the list
5 Riku of the Two Reflections
Creatures
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Joraga Treespeaker
2 Sylvan Ranger
2 Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Spellskite
2 Nin, the Pain Artist
3 Animar, Soul of the Elements
3 Fierce Empath
3 Eternal Witness
3 Pilgrim's eye
4 Clone
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Oracle of Mul Daya
4 Spike Weaver
4 Forgotten Ancient
4 Ondu Giant
5 Seedborn Muse
5 Acidic Slime
5 Psychosis Crawler
5 Djinn of Wishes
5 Urabrask the Hidden
6 Inferno Titan
6 Brutalizer Exarch
6 Deadwood Treefolk
6 Consecrated Sphinx
6 Vigor
6 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
7 Avenger of Zendikar
7 Chancellor of the Forge
7 Chancellor of the Spires
7 Dragon Mage
8 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
8 Terastodon
10 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
12 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Sylvan Library
4 Abundance
4 Leyline of Anticipation
4 Defense of the Heart
5 Asceticism
6 Mind over Matter
6 Warstorm Surge
Artifacts
1 Sol Ring
2 Lightening Greaves
3 Proteus Staff
3 Temple Bell
4 Birthing Pod
Planeswalker
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
Sorceries
3 Cultivate
3 Kodama's Reach
3 Guided Passage
3 Genesis Wave
4 Right of Replication
7 Tooth and Nail
8 Warp World
8 Praetor's Counsel
Instants
2 Comet Storm
3 Krosan Grip
3 Beast Within
Land
1 Khalni Garden
1 Halimar Depths
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shivan Reef
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Gruul Turf
1 Command Tower
1 City of Brass
8 Islands
8 Mountains
11 Forests
Cool cards/card interactions
Seedborn Muse + Leyline of Anticipation.
Take extra turns, but without being "that guy" because it's still their turn. Gets better if you copied Seedborn Muse with a clone or Riku (or copied it with Riku then cloned it and copied the clone). Each copy multiplies your available mana by more. Put this mana into a big Genesis Wave or Comet Storm to probably win during their untap step.
Psychosis Crawler + Consecrated Sphinx
Everyone likes drawing cards. Now you draw more cards! Add in Temple Bell, Nin the Pain Artist, and Dragon Mage for massive damage. Also works well with Jin-Gitaxias. Niv-Mizzet gives redundancy.
Spike Weaver + forgotten ancient
FOG. FOG EVERYWHERE FOREVER. (dies to removal or too many opponents, but shuts down Omnath HARD)
Sylvan Library + Abundance
Draw 3 cards of your choice per turn.
Warstorm Surge + .....Pretty much anything
Chancellor of the Forge - lots of damage
Acidic Slime - Kill a creature too
Psychosis Crawler - Hilarious after a Nin, the pain artist activation
Inferno Titan - even more damage
Blightsteel Colossus - Win.
NOTE: the CREATURE deals the damage. Yeah, warstorm surge is insane.
Mind over Matter + Temple Bell / Niv-Mizzet / Nin the Pain Artist + Psychosis Crawler / Birthing Pod
Temple Bell / Niv-Mizzet - Win. This one is more a victim of circumstance but whatever.
Nin + Crawler - Use Nin on crawler to draw a bunch and hit opponents. Discard all those cards to untap as many lands as possible and Nin. Repeat. Repeat Again. Win.
Birthing Pod - More activations out of this monster of a card is well worth discarding one of the extra lands in your hand.
Kemba | Linvala | Talrand | Geth | Krenko | Zada | Patron of the Orochi | Medomai | Athreos | Gisela | Trostani | Nin | Silumgar | Kaervek | Jarad | Xenagos | Sydri | Narset | Roon | Zurgo | Ghave | Marath | Uril | Tasigur | Animar | Riku | Riku | Sek'Kuar | Cromat
Kemba | Linvala | Talrand | Geth | Krenko | Zada | Patron of the Orochi | Medomai | Athreos | Gisela | Trostani | Nin | Silumgar | Kaervek | Jarad | Xenagos | Sydri | Narset | Roon | Zurgo | Ghave | Marath | Uril | Tasigur | Animar | Riku | Riku | Sek'Kuar | Cromat