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No matter what, Riku is my favorite leader of all time and probably in all of magic. What i am confused about is that you seem to be mainly relying on his ability to copy spells rather than trying to use him for the creature ability. Im saying that I am confused but i actually like it. Since I mostly split my time with him between being a creature spam/mana ramp, I have a few suggestions that you don't have to listen to since this is mostly based off of creatures at the moment.-Add Nephalia Smuggler. He helps SOOO much when you are trying to copy a creature, he exiles them then returns them under your control. Really cheap. He is a 1 cmc blue 1/1 human. Another card that could replace him is Deadeye Navigator who is really just as cheap if not more so because you don't have to tap him to activate his ability and it costs 2 less.-Add Axebane Guardian. Nuff said, in a normal deck it gets scary to have four of him and 16 mana of any kind. With my creature based format of Riku I managed to pull 163 of them by turn 8 and trust me, that's a lot of mana. Especially when you add anything that gives the creatures you control haste.-Add cards that return sorceries and instants from your grave to your hand. That would help, especially since you can copy them and return another card.I say that this is spell focused mainly because I didn't see that many return target creature to your hand cards or even cards that exile than return another creature. One issue you will run into is that this deck seems to have almost no way of pulling mana out quickly. This will cause you to lose almost every time, and Riku stops being a glass cannon and more of just a glass idol. Also try adding some hexproof to protect him.
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i dont really play extremely competativly i just play casually with a few of my friends and my idea with the instants and stuff was to uses eye of the storm with hive mind to create a crazy torrent of spells but with the people i play with having little creatures would be really fatal so i tried to balance it the best i could but r/w/b kalia decks and 5 color slivers decks are annoying to fight. i figured with something like furnace or fire servant out riku and echo mage i could one shot someone with something like a lava axe. and i used isochron to try to keep the spells going because i looked up rulings and since eye of the storm and isochron both say play which is the old term for cast iso copys trigger eye of the storm and eye of the storm triggers the storm ability so i figured in a matter of a few turns id get a bunch of creature spam alone with my big nasty guys
if you want to screw someone over and you can deal a lot of damage with those storm spells, try to add hostility in there. Then you spam even more creatures with haste and you become the deadliest player.
http://www.mtgvault.com/timblebee/decks/riku-edh/ Might help.