The Commander
When Rishkar enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
Each creature you control with a counter on it has "
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Guide
Gameplan
Deploy counters across your board and turn every counter-bearing creature into a mana dork, ramping into huge threats and X-spells. Rishkar accelerates explosively in a counters-matter shell, letting you go wide or build a single voltron threat, then close with overwhelming combat or a big finisher.
Strengths
- Massive mana acceleration by turning your whole board into Llanowar Elves
- Cheap, repeatable, and synergizes with any +1/+1 counter theme
- Mono-green consistency keeps the deck focused and resilient to color screw
- Enables huge X-spells and expensive payoffs ahead of curve
Weaknesses
- Board wipes are devastating since your mana and threats are all creatures
- No native card advantage or interaction in green
- Tapping creatures for mana leaves you open to attacks and removal
- Susceptible to graveyard/recursion hate and being color-pied out of countermagic
Key Cards
- Hardened Scales — Multiplies every counter Rishkar and friends generate, snowballing your mana dorks and threats.
- Doubling Season — Doubles entering counters, instantly arming multiple creatures with mana abilities and pumping tokens.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — Classic green finisher that converts your wide, counter-laden board into lethal damage.
- Ezuri, Renegade Leader — Overrun engine and regeneration that pairs perfectly with a counters-and-mana board.
- Walking Ballista — Counter sink that uses Rishkar's mana to grow and pings the table for combo or removal.
- Cathars' Crusade — Adds counters to every creature you make, fueling Rishkar's mana ability across the board.
Upgrade Path
Add counter doublers (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Doubling Season) and mana doublers to push explosive turns. Tighten the curve with elf ramp and tutors like Worldly Tutor and Finale of Devastation, and include resilient finishers plus protection such as Heroic Intervention and Asceticism to survive board wipes.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Overrun effects like Craterhoof Behemoth or Ezuri turning a wide board lethal
- ▸Walking Ballista or Triskelion fueled by counters to ping out the table
- ▸Massive X-spells (Finale of Devastation, Hydra payoffs) into overwhelming swings
Archetypes
- Counters / +1-+1 — Rishkar both places counters and rewards every counter on the board, anchoring the theme.
- Ramp / Big Mana — Turning creatures into mana dorks generates explosive mana for X-spells and giant threats.
- Tokens / Go-Wide — Counter-spreaders arm token armies, which then alpha-strike with Overrun effects.
- Elfball — Mono-green elf and dork density combines with Rishkar's mana doubling for combo-level ramp.
Combos
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Rishkar, Peema Renegade + Barrenton Medic
→ Infinite self-mill, Put a selection of permanant cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Animation Module + Runadi, Behemoth Caller + Rishkar, Peema Renegade
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade + Ant Queen + Ivy Lane Denizen + Doubling Season + Concordant Crossroads
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Animation Module + Rishkar, Peema Renegade + Thousand-Year Elixir
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Arwen, Weaver of Hope + Animation Module + Rishkar, Peema Renegade + Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite tapped creature tokens
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
