Riku of Two Reflections

Gameplan

Riku doubles your value engines: copying every instant/sorcery and cloning creatures that enter for incremental advantage that snowballs into overwhelming board presence or a lethal spell. You ramp early, deploy Riku and a few payoffs, then chain copied spells and tokens until you bury opponents in card advantage or assemble a combo. Most games end via a doubled X-spell, a swarm of copied threats, or an infinite loop.

Key Cards

• Cyclonic Rift — Copying an overloaded Rift wraps up the game and the copy can hit a second board state's worth of permanents.
• Doubling Season — Riku's creature copies and any token spells double again, exploding your board.
• Mystic Reflection — Pairs with Riku to turn any creature ETB into copies of your bombs.
• Birthing Pod — Each fetched creature triggers Riku's clone, accelerating your toolbox and combo pieces.
• Palinchron — With untap effects or Riku copies it enables infinite mana to fuel everything.
• Dockside Extortionist — Copying it with Riku doubles the treasures and fuels explosive turns.

Upgrade Path

Lean into a tight combo package—Palinchron/Peregrine Drake plus untappers, or Dramatic Reversal with Isochron Scepter—to convert Riku's copies into game-ending loops. Add more cheap interaction (Swan Song, Counterspell, Pongify) and protection (Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves) to keep Riku online, and prioritize fast mana like Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus to outpace removal. Trim clunky value cards for low-curve enablers so you can pay Riku's copy costs every turn.