The Commander
Rielle gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever you discard one or more cards for the first time each turn, draw that many cards.
Guide
Gameplan
Rielle turns discard into raw card advantage, then converts a stocked graveyard into both fuel for recursion and an oversized attacker. You spend the early game filtering with rummage and loot effects to fill the yard, then chain instants and sorceries with flashback, retrace, and replay effects to bury opponents in value or assemble a storm/spell-velocity kill.
Strengths
- Discard-to-draw means cards that normally cost you resources (rummaging, cycling, jump-start) net positive card advantage
- Deep synergy with flashback, retrace, and aftermath spells that reuse cards from the graveyard
- Rielle herself becomes a fast, cheap voltron threat once the graveyard fills with instants and sorceries
- Excellent at refueling a hand after going low, making it hard to grind down
- Izzet has premier card selection and burn to leverage all that draw
Weaknesses
- Heavily reliant on Rielle being on the battlefield to capitalize on discard, and she's a clear removal magnet
- Graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Bojuka Bog) cripples both her power and your recursion
- Low natural creature count makes you vulnerable to early aggression and board wipes leave you exposed
- No built-in life gain or interaction beyond what UR offers; can get raced
- The draw trigger only fires once per turn, so over-loading discard in one turn wastes cards
Key Cards
- Anje's Ravager — Forces you to discard your hand each attack, turning Rielle's trigger into a massive draw refill.
- Faithless Looting — Cheap, flashback-able discard outlet that draws extra with Rielle and pre-fills the graveyard.
- Wheel of Fortune — Discards your whole hand for a fresh seven, then Rielle draws additional cards on top.
- Containment Construct — Lets you replay each discarded card, converting Rielle's loot draws into free spell casts.
- Underworld Breach — Turns your loaded instant/sorcery graveyard into a combo engine for explosive, often lethal, turns.
- Past in Flames — Gives all your graveyard instants and sorceries flashback for a value-laden or storm-style payoff turn.
Upgrade Path
Add more free or repeatable discard outlets (Anje's Ravager, Tortured Existence-style loops, Bone Miser-equivalents) and graveyard recursion (Snapcaster Mage, Mystic Retrieval, retrace cards like Raven's Crime) to maximize triggers. Tighten the mana base with fast rocks and dual lands, and slot a dedicated combo finish such as Underworld Breach plus Brain Freeze or Lion's Eye Diamond. Finally, run graveyard protection and stack interaction (Pyroblast, Swan Song) since Rielle and your yard are the deck's spine.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Beat down with an oversized Rielle for commander damage
- ▸Storm off via Underworld Breach/Past in Flames into burn like Grapeshot or a big X-spell
- ▸Grind out the table with overwhelming card advantage backed by counters and removal
- ▸Cast a recurred Comet Storm or Fireball-style finisher to the face
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — Rielle rewards casting and recurring instants and sorceries while growing huge from them.
- Card Advantage Control — Her draw trigger fuels a counterspell-and-removal grind that outlasts the table.
- Combo — A full graveyard plus Underworld Breach or Past in Flames enables storm and infinite spell loops.
- Voltron — Rielle can swing for lethal commander damage once enough spells sit in your graveyard.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
