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Riku of Two Reflections
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {U}{R}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may pay {G}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature.
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What Riku of Two Reflections actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {U}{R}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may pay {G}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature.
What a Riku of Two Reflections deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
- instant and sorcery spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
- instants, sorceries and artifact spells worth copying (it copies your spells)
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
The Riku of Two Reflections deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
- 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
Best cards for Riku of Two Reflections
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Brainstorm1 mana
- Crop Rotation1 mana
- Faithless Looting1 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Lightning Bolt1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Brainstorm1 mana
- Crop Rotation1 mana
- Faithless Looting1 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Lightning Bolt1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Hanweir Garrison3 mana
- Rampant Frogantua3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Castle Embereth0 mana
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
- Great Train Heist1 mana
- Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Return of the Wildspeaker5 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Combos with Riku of Two Reflections
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Riku of Two Reflections is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Riku of Two Reflections + Biovisionary + Double Major1,043 decks
- Riku of Two Reflections + Palinchron354 decks
- Riku of Two Reflections + Narset's Reversal + Time Warp185 decks
- Riku of Two Reflections + Astral Dragon + Parallel Lives175 decks
- Riku of Two Reflections + Astral Dragon + Doubling Season132 decks
- Riku of Two Reflections + Narset's Reversal + Nexus Of Fate83 decks
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