Riku the Group Hug

Commander / EDH*

iiyama88

Creature (30)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Avatar of Fury
• 1x Deadwood Treefolk
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Excruciator
• 1x Flameblast Dragon
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gaea's Herald
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Hypersonic Dragon
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Intet, the Dreamer
• 1x Magmatic Force
• 1x Magus of the Vineyard
• 1x Meletis Charlatan
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Silklash Spider
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Terra Stomper
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace Beleren

Land (37)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Fungal Reaches
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Transguild Promenade

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Arcane Melee
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Guild Feud
• 1x Killer Instinct
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Unifying Theory
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Artifact (4)

• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Gate to the AEther
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Temporal Aperture

Instant (4)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Call the Skybreaker
• 1x Clan Defiance
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Firespout
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Urban Evolution

Commander (1)

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Please note, this deck still needs some tweaking. More land I think.

I do like Riku, just not as much as Animar and Momir Vig. Those decks got the better cards but I still wanted a Riku deck and found I had quite a few large creatures and spells that could be fun in a deck.

This deck was made for to be a somewhat chaotic and fun deck with mana ramp and big creatures and spells for Riku to copy. There's a small theme mimicking Riku's creature token ability in Cackling Counterpart and Rite of Replication. There's a group hug element too, to try and accelerate the game and get big crazy fun things happening. Everyone likes that, right? I'm sure I have a copy of Howling Mine somewhere, but I can't find it yet.

I also ended up with a small theme about the top of the library (Intet the Dreamer,Temporal Aperture, Gate to the Aether, Killer Instinct and Guild Feud), while it would be powerful to put in Sensei's Divining Top I'm going to try with just Crystal Ball first. A small side note: Killer Instinct has fantastic flavour text and art while fitting the top-of-the-deck mechanic.

Chances are I'll play this deck if I ever lend my decks out to people. That way everyone gets lots of cards and mana. Also, I don't want to have the advantage of "I know exactly how this deck works and it's little intricate things. Therefore I'll probably win this match while you figure out the finer details of the decks you haven't built". Hopefully the power level of this deck will be lower than my others due, partly, to the randomness involved in some of the cards.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.19
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Elemental 5/5 UR
Folders	Commander decks