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Rionya, Fire Dancer

Rionya, Fire Dancer

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {3}{R}{R} · Red commander

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create X tokens that are copies of another target creature you control, where X is one plus the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn. They gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
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What Rionya, Fire Dancer actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Rionya, Fire Dancer deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Rionya, Fire Dancer deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Rionya, Fire Dancer

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.

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  2. Dualcaster Mage3 mana
  3. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  4. Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
  5. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  6. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  7. Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak5 mana
  8. Voldaren Epicure1 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Faithless Looting1 mana
  2. Gamble1 mana
  3. Lightning Bolt1 mana
  4. Vandalblast1 mana
  5. Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege0 mana
  6. Pyroblast1 mana
  7. Red Elemental Blast1 mana
  8. Redirect Lightning1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  5. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
  6. Field of the Dead0 mana
  7. Fountainport0 mana
  8. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Castle Embereth0 mana
  2. Great Train Heist1 mana
  3. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  4. Rising of the Day3 mana
  5. Purphoros, God of the Forge4 mana
  6. Kavaron, Memorial World0 mana
  7. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  8. Caged Sun6 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Crush1 mana
  3. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  4. Titan's Presence3 mana
  5. Abrade2 mana
  6. Untimely Malfunction2 mana
  7. Chaos Warp3 mana
  8. Kozilek's Command2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Gamble1 mana
  7. Hoarding Dragon5 mana
  8. Shrine Steward5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Apocalypse5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Sticky Fingers1 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
  8. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Combos with Rionya, Fire Dancer

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Rionya, Fire Dancer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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