Riku of Many Paths sits at the center of a modal spell engine, rewarding you for casting charms, commands, and other choose-your-own-effect spells by generating card advantage, building up a large trampling threat, and flooding the board with flying Bird tokens. The deck runs a dense suite of modal instants and sorceries across all three colors, with damage-dealing creatures like Guttersnipe, Kessig Flamebreather, and Veyran, Voice of Duality amplifying the storm-like effect of casting many spells in a turn to drain opponents. The win condition emerges from a combination of chip damage from spell triggers, an increasingly large Riku attacking with trample, and a wide air force of Birds backed by counterspell and removal modal spells that keep the board and stack under control.

Riku of Many Paths decklist

• 3× Island
• 2× Mountain
• 4× Forest
• Arcane Signet
• Command Tower
• Return to Nature
• Swan Song
• Beast Within
• Blue Elemental Blast
• Farseek
• Firebrand Archer
• Guttersnipe
• Nature's Lore
• Rampant Growth
• Sol Ring
• Sublime Epiphany
• Red Elemental Blast
• Fiery Confluence
• Seedborn Muse
• Yavimaya Coast
• Hydroblast
• Karplusan Forest
• Pyroblast
• Shivan Reef
• Breeding Pool
• Simic Charm
• Stomping Ground
• Spire Garden
• Steam Vents
• Cyclonic Rift
• Misty Rainforest
• Scalding Tarn
• Flooded Grove
• Wooded Foothills
• Cryptic Command
• Rootbound Crag
• Fiery Islet
• Prismatic Vista
• Waterlogged Grove
• Fierce Guardianship
• Steel Sabotage
• Three Visits
• Ketria Triome
• Hinterland Harbor
• Sulfur Falls
• Proteus Staff
• Rejuvenating Springs
• Training Center
• Inscription of Abundance
• Jeska's Will
• Prismari Command
• Quandrix Command
• Veyran, Voice of Duality
• Verdant Command
• Harmonic Prodigy
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• You Come to a River
• You Find the Villains' Lair
• You See a Guard Approach
• You Find Some Prisoners
• Rockfall Vale
• Dreamroot Cascade
• Stormcarved Coast
• Kessig Flamebreather
• Otawara, Soaring City
• An Offer You Can't Refuse
• Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• Mishra's Command
• Urza's Rebuff
• Bushwhack
• Defabricate
• Titania's Command
• Cast into the Fire
• Flame of Anor
• Erebor Flamesmith
• Return from the Wilds
• Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch
• Glimpse the Core
• Great Train Heist
• Three Steps Ahead
• Smuggler's Surprise
• Trash the Town
• Return the Favor
• Collective Resistance
• Sink into Stupor
• Pinnacle Monk
• Coruscation Mage
• Untimely Malfunction
• Archmage of Runes
• Heritage Reclamation
• Vivi Ornitier
• Origin of Metalbending
• Prismari Charm