River Song

River Song Commander Deck

River Song turns the table on opponents who interact with their own libraries by punishing every scry, surveil, and search effect with direct damage and growing ever larger through accumulated +1/+1 counters. The deck fuels this punishment engine by flooding the board with instants and sorceries, leveraging a dense package of spellslinging payoffs — creatures that deal extra damage, grow with each spell cast, or create tokens whenever you cast an instant or sorcery — while also provoking opponents into searching with land destruction effects that trigger River Song repeatedly. The deck wins by establishing Timestream Navigator alongside River Song to generate infinite extra turns, while the ongoing damage from spellslinging and library-interaction punishment closes out the game.

Decklist

• Abrade
• 2× Arcane Signet
• Archmage Emeritus
• Ash Barrens
• Avengers Disassembled
• Burst Lightning
• Chronozoa
• Command Tower
• Desolation of Smaug
• Devastating Onslaught
• Disintegrate
• Disrupt Decorum
• Dominus of Fealty
• Enigma Drake
• Evolving Wilds
• Fin Fang Foom
• Gandalf the Grey
• Geomancer's Gambit
• Guttersnipe
• Hawkeye, Master Marksman
• Hawkeye, Young Avenger
• Heated Debate
• Improbable Alliance
• Ingenious Mastery
• Invoke the Winds
• 13× Island
• Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer
• Junktroller
• Kaza, Roil Chaser
• Keldon Flamesage
• Kellan, Planar Trailblazer
• Kraum, Violent Cacophony
• Krenko's Buzzcrusher
• Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
• Lutri, the Spellchaser
• Mocking Sprite
• Mockingbird
• Molten Duplication
• 14× Mountain
• Muddle the Mixture
• Najal, the Storm Runner
• Naktamun Lorespinner
• Neera, Wild Mage
• Octopus Form
• Opt
• Psychogenic Probe
• Refute
• Rite of the Dragoncaller
• Sanctum of Eternity
• Sandworm
• Scytheclaw Raptor
• Seifer Almasy
• Seize the Spoils
• Spell Crumple
• Spell Pierce
• Sprite Dragon
• Staff of Compleation
• Stitch in Time
• 2× Sweltering Suns
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Swiftwater Cliffs
• Tannuk, Steadfast Second
• Temple of the False God
• Terramorphic Expanse
• The Dawning Archaic
• The Scarlet Witch
• Think Twice
• Tibalt's Trickery
• Timestream Navigator
• Volatile Fault
• Wizard's Staff
• Zaffai and the Tempests