Riku Storm [EDH]

by Commanderwho on 30 January 2019

Command Zone (1 card)

Creatures (1)

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (21 cards)

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Deck Description

I noticed an interesting interaction between Riku's instant and sorcery copying ability and spells like Twincast and Fork. If you copy a Fork, you can target the original Fork, then make infinite copies of Fork all targeting the original Fork. All you need is something for the first Fork to target. Obviously that should be a storm spell. I'm not a competitive EDH player, but the nature of the deck makes it very competitive, as you'll often be winning the turn after you cast Riku with something like Grapeshot or by casting your entire library with Magus of the Mind or Mind's Desire.

There are plenty of counterspells to protect your storm cards, tutors to find a Fork or a storm card including Gifts Ungiven which synergizes well with Past in Flames, and Memory's Journey to protect any combo pieces that may be under threat of graveyard hate.

Deck Tags

  • EDH
  • Storm
  • Commander
  • Competitive

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Riku Storm [EDH]

Lets say you cast a Lightning Bolt and copy it with a Twincast.
Stack (Top Down): Twincast -> Lightning Bolt
Now you use Riku of Two Reflections's ability to create a copy of Twincast and target the initial Twincast with it.
Stack: Twincast (Copy) -> Twincast (Original) -> Lightning Bolt
The copy resolves, targeting the original, creating a new copy
Stack: Twincast (Copy2) -> Twincast (Original) -> Lightning Bolt
The copy resolves again (and so on), targeting the original, creating a new copy
Stack: Twincast (Copy3) -> Twincast (Original) -> Lightning Bolt
To end this infinite loop you have to target the innitial spell, Lightning Bolt in this case, and end up with basically 3 Bolts in the end.
Stack: Twincast (CopyX targeting Bolt now) -> Twincast (Original, targeting Bolt) -> Lightning Bolt

The main problem here is: Copied spells aren't cast and thus don't count towards storm counter.
From the original rules: 706.10. To copy a spell, activated ability, or triggered ability means to put a copy of it onto the stack; a copy of a spell isn't cast and a copy of an activated ability isn't activated.

Hate to destroy the idea, but this doesn't work as intended.

Greetings
Muktol

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Posted 31 January 2019 at 07:58

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