Fateful Draw-down: Draw & Discard w/ Rielle!

Commander / EDH Cycling Discard Mill Spellslinger Theme/Gimmick UR (Izzet) Voltron

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Instant (19)

• 1x Brand
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Lightning Axe
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Neutralize
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rites of Refusal
• 1x Scrap
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Tragic Lesson
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Creature (11)

• 1x Brallin, Skyshark Rider  ^Flip
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• 1x Magus of the Bazaar
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Conflagrate
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fireball
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Turbulent Dreams
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Attunement
• 1x Drake Haven
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Teferi's Tutelage
• 1x Underworld Breach

Artifact (6)

• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x The Magic Mirror
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Land (33)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 10x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Training Center

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Jaya Ballard
• 1x The Royal Scions

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Maybeboard

Creature (23)

• 1x Avaricious Dragon
• 1x Avian Oddity
• 1x Bazaar Trademage
• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Cavalier of Flame
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Gempalm Sorcerer
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Hisoka, Minamo Sensei
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Magus of the Jar
• 1x Nadir Kraken
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Ox of Agonas
• 1x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Wharf Infiltrator
• 1x Wolf of Devil's Breach

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Master of Time

Land (1)

• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Chamber of Manipulation
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Footfall Crater
• 1x Heightened Awareness
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Improbable Alliance
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Lingering Mirage
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Oath of Scholars
• 1x Power Taint
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

Instant (14)

• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Channeled Force
• 1x Dangerous Wager
• 1x Fling
• 1x Imaginary Threats
• 1x Mage's Guile
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Pulse of the Grid
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Rebuild
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Tragic Lesson

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Devastating Dreams
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ideas Unbound
• 1x Immolating Gyre
• 1x Khorvath's Fury
• 1x Laquatus's Creativity
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Pirate's Pillage
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Shattered Perception
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Sweltering Suns
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Artifact (7)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Fluctuator
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Null Brooch

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Rielle is a very interesting command that can be built a couple of different ways; either primarily as as a draw & discard deck or as a control deck (as seen by some of the cards in the maybeboard). I've built this deck primarily as a draw & discard deck since I find that to be more entertaining than playing hard control. This is one of the few decks I've owned where while the main point of the deck is to draw cards, it doesn't feel like I'm playing solitaire. Every card you play that hits the table has some effect that people end up interacting with in some way, and there are enough unique win-cons that people won't get bored with you recycling the same win-con 5 games in a row.

Unlike a lot of my other decks; I don't think Rielle needs much of a primer, since the gameplan is fairly simple. You simply get Rielle out as fast as possible; and start drawing and discarding cards. Since you end up drawing and discarding so many cards, but I would primarily start aiming for certain win-con pieces and building your gameplan as the game goes on. You don't need all of them at once, and hell, feel free to discard some of them since we have redundancies for situations where our pieces end up in the graveyard. I've tried to provide a list of some of the various win-cons you can access below.

Goal: Draw Cards & Discard Cards

Wincons:

• Conflagrate
• Ping Damage with Niv-Mizzet, Parun, Psychosis Crawler, Glint-Horn Buccaneer &/or Brallin, Skyshark Rider  
• Fateful Showdown
• Rielle, the Everwise through commander damage
• Jace, Wielder of Mysteries / Laboratory Maniac
• Fireball + Jeska's Will + Windfall + big hand,
• The Royal Scions ult
• Firestorm + big hand + big board
• Mill w/ Teferi's Tutelage
• Underworld Breach because it's a broken card and lets you get whatever win-con you want if you've milled it or used it already

After playing with this deck for quite a while now, I can say for certain that this has easily become one of my favorite decks to pilot. The deck can function relatively consistently even without Rielle, and really uses her as a gas-pedal that you press all the way down to make sure you can hit your discard combo pieces and start hitting your opponents for 20+ damage with Fateful Showdown or starting to ping them when you have to discard the 20+ cards you just drew because you kept drawing on other peoples turns. My personal favorite win-cons come about through using Tolarian Winds as it's just so much fun to get two hands for the price of one easy discard, and can set up your pieces really early on. The one small problem I've noticed is that rarely you'll get one of those games where even with Rielle you just don't draw into the draw/discard cards you need. Those games suck, but I've only had that happen once or twice in the whole time I've been piloting. Just give it a good shuffle, and get back to wheeling yourself.

[September 2021] Reille has remained a staple in my list of commander decks since the last update. Not many new updates have occurred as the deck itself is quite solid, and the maybe-board has remained relatively unchanged due to this. If you want to build a more competitive version of this deck, I would highly recommend the inclusion of the large number of tutors available in red/blue. Overall the deck is able to function without Rielle, albeit to a the detriment of less card draw, but if you need the right spell next turn or your playgroup tends to run decks that are a bit more consistent, toss a few search spells in and make everyone have a much worse time when you start going off just a little bit earlier.

[Current Cutting Block]: - Jaya Ballard, Task Mage - Scrap - Neutralize - Serum Visions - Preordain

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.91
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Drake 2/2 U, Emblem Dack Fayden, Emblem Jaya Ballard, Kraken 8/8 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Squid 1/1 U, Treasure