At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Riku of Many Paths
- Colors: Green / Blue / Red (GUR)
- Archetype: Temur ramp / big-mana value
- Power tier: mid-high
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Ramp hard with dorks, land-fetch, and Landers, then bury the table in card advantage and oversized threats. Riku of Many Paths turns the deck’s pile of modal spells (charms, choose-one burn, spree, kicker) into extra value — every mode chosen exiles a card to play, grows Riku, or makes a flier. Keep the board clear with cheap instant-speed removal and counters while the mana engine snowballs. Close with land-scaled bombs: Ureni nuking the board for X = lands, Fungal Colossus and Chandra’s Incinerator coming down early, or just a giant Prismabasher swing. Archmage of Runes turns the dense instant/modal package into a card-draw engine while discounting it.
Upgrade path
LAND REVAMP 2026-07-11: manabase rebuilt to kill taplands (cut guildgates/temples/gainlands); now runs shock + verge (+painland in Brawl) untapped duals + basics. Land crafts this pass: Riverpyre Verge, Thornspire Verge, Willowrush Verge, Yavimaya Coast. Built 100% owned — every card has owned_qty>0 in the brawl pool. Fixing leans on owned Ravnica shocks (Breeding Pool, Steam Vents, Stomping Ground) plus Frontier Bivouac, Command Tower, and owned tap-duals; nothing here should block in gate. UPGRADE MENU (rare/mythic crafts NOT in this list that Mik could add later): 1) Tatyova, Benthic Druid is owned but if she weren’t, a craft like Cultivate/Explosive Vegetation tier ramp; 2) craft a Nyxbloom Ancient or Mana Reflection for explosive doubling; 3) craft Koma, Cosmos Serpent (owned alt commander) as a second top-end if you want a sacrifice/lock engine over Ureni.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Riku of Many Paths
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Noxious Newt
1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Hydro-Channeler
1 Spider Manifestation
1 Studious First-Year
1 Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Seedship Agrarian
1 Invasion of Zendikar
1 The Earth King
1 Ignis Scientia
1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
1 Sazh Katzroy
1 Abrade
1 Glorious Decay
1 Explosive Derailment
1 Bumi Bash
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Artistic Process
1 Traumatic Critique
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Quandrix Charm
1 Amazing Acrobatics
1 Essence Scatter
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Spellgyre
1 School Daze
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Banishing Betrayal
1 Ice Magic
1 Big Score
1 Seize the Spoils
1 Cerebral Download
1 Ral, Crackling Wit
1 Landscape Painter
1 Spellbook Seeker
1 Tempest Hart
1 Overlord of the Floodpits
1 Eddymurk Crab
1 Daring Waverider
1 Inga Rune-Eyes
1 Matoya, Archon Elder
1 Explosive Prodigy
1 Prismabasher
1 Archmage of Runes
1 Chandra's Incinerator
1 Fungal Colossus
1 Magmablood Archaic
1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
1 Ureni, the Song Unending
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Command Tower
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Capital City
1 Conduit Pylons
1 Thornspire Verge
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Riverpyre Verge
8 Forest
6 Mountain
11 Island
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 God-Eternal Kefnet
1 Elemental Bond
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Growth Spiral
1 Arcane Signet
1 Third Path Iconoclast
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal keeps Riku’s modal/spellslinger-ramp identity but upgrades every tier: premium modal interaction (Cryptic Command, Mystic Confluence, Archmage’s Charm, Commit // Memory) that Riku copies, spell-payoff engines (Storm-Kiln Artist, Third Path Iconoclast, Metallurgic Summonings, Shark Typhoon, Archmage of Runes), and a big-mana top-end (Nyxbloom Ancient, Cultivator Colossus, Titan of Industry, Uro, Genesis Ultimatum, The Great Henge). Fixing gains Ketria Triome + Frontier Bivouac. Top craft priorities: Nyxbloom Ancient (mythic), Cryptic Command (rare), The Great Henge (mythic), Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath (mythic), Genesis Ultimatum (rare).
Crafts to reach the ideal: 27 (7 mythic, 15 rare, 4 uncommon, 1 common)
- Mythic: Cultivator Colossus, Metallurgic Summonings, Nyxbloom Ancient, Rashmi, Eternities Crafter, The Great Henge, Titan of Industry, Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
- Rare: Aeve, Progenitor Ooze, Archmage’s Charm, Beast Whisperer, Bonny Pall, Clearcutter, Commit // Memory, Cryptic Command, Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration, Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness, Genesis Ultimatum, Guardian Project, Hullbreaker Horror, Ketria Triome, Mystic Confluence, Shark Typhoon, Winternight Stories
- Uncommon: Cultivate, Migration Path, Paradise Druid, Storm-Kiln Artist
- Common: Farseek
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Riku of Many Paths
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Paradise Druid
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Growth Spiral
1 Farseek
1 Cultivate
1 Migration Path
1 Circuitous Route
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Cryptic Command
1 Mystic Confluence
1 Archmage's Charm
1 Counterspell
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Essence Scatter
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Negate
1 Spell Pierce
1 Commit // Memory
1 Quandrix Charm
1 Bumi Bash
1 Explosive Derailment
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrade
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Torch the Tower
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Winternight Stories
1 Brainstorm
1 Big Score
1 Seize the Spoils
1 Cerebral Download
1 Genesis Ultimatum
1 Archmage of Runes
1 Storm-Kiln Artist
1 Third Path Iconoclast
1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
1 Metallurgic Summonings
1 Shark Typhoon
1 Docent of Perfection
1 Ral, Crackling Wit
1 Ureni, the Song Unending
1 Nyxbloom Ancient
1 Cultivator Colossus
1 Titan of Industry
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
1 Hullbreaker Horror
1 Etali, Primal Conqueror
1 The Great Henge
1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
1 Chandra's Incinerator
1 Prismabasher
1 Fungal Colossus
1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
1 Overlord of the Floodpits
1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
1 Aeve, Progenitor Ooze
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Guardian Project
1 Command Tower
1 Ketria Triome
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Thornspire Verge
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Riverpyre Verge
1 Yavimaya Coast
10 Island
8 Forest
6 Mountain
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