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Riku chaos! For when one Warp World isn't enough.


Current list as of 03/26/2015.

Background:
This deck was originally a 60-card casual deck designed to do crazy things with my group's multiplayer games. I referred to it as Multiplayer Shenanigans. It had four copies of Vision Skeins and four copies of Warp World. I kept it at over 60 cards for a little while to increase the inconsistency.

After we picked up EDH and I fell in love with it, I felt the need to convert the Multiplayer Shenanigans. I also felt the need to incoproprate green or black for more goofy things to do, and black seemed a little too cruel. So the deck was converted into an Intet the Dreamer EDH deck for a little while. That didn't last very long before the commander decks came out and I got my hands on Riku.

Ramping the game into overdrive can get out of control, so many recent changes have focused on adding a small control side to the deck so you can counter combo pieces or get rid of aggravating cards.

Strategy:
Winning is not the main objective here. Making dumb stuff happen is more important. Sometimes you want to basically overturn the table with a Warp World. Sometimes you just want to give someone an Avarice Totem so everyone else starts using it to squabble.

Of course, stuff can't get too dumb. Sometimes you ramp most of the table into some midsize creatures but one person gets their combo. That's when you use something like Dream Fracture or, ideally, Spellshift.

There are some win conditions. Insurrection murders people very effectively, and all the card drawing makes them vulnerable to mill. Plus the various clones can take whatever big threats you've helped people get out.

Knowledge Pool - Makes Wild Evocation even funner!

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Knowledge Pool - Makes Wild Evocation even funner!

I've actually been trying to trade for a foil one since it's so useless, but for some reason everyone who has a foil one has some emotional connection to it for some reason. Come on, people, it's a terrible card!

New additions, decklist should be updated soon. I've got Time Reversal, Worldslayer, Contested War Zone, Mikokoro, Center of the Sea, and Font of Mythos in addition to a couple other things. Oh, and Insurrection as a win condition once I've accelerated everyone enough.

Two years out of date? This can be fixed. The deck isn't incomplete anymore, in a sense at least. It's probably the EDH deck I own that's most open to changes.

Old list and description archived here:

Recent Changes:
These have been mostly filling out the deck with more appropriate cards. There haven't been too many notable changes.

Some things played poorly with other cards - Omen Machine being the biggest culprit here - and I'm still looking for similar cards to take out.

Future Changes:
The biggest push I'm planning on making is focusing the deck more on Riku. This isn't just any URG commander, it's the copy king.

Wild Ricochet, Nivix Guildmage, Progenitor Mimic, Heat Shimmer - the list goes on. With them will come cards that like being copied more. Creatures with ETB effects seem likely - this will also give me more Strionic Resonator targets (also Conjurer's Closet could make it in to help with those, plus it allows me to copy a creature with Riku once per turn).

Surprisingly, a few planeswalkers seem like they could be useful. Chandra, Pyromaster lets me get that fake draw and copy a ridiculous spell a few times. Jace, Architect of Thought could be potentially goofy. I'm not as sure about him. Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded gives fun random draw as well as a second Insurrection and the ability to occasionally do a huge chunk of damage to someone who's drawn way too many cards.

Finally, a few cards just haven't made it into the deck or were removed for some reason I can't remember after two years. Braids, Conjurer Adept, Fatespinner, Heartbeat of Spring, Tangleroot, and so on.

I have a similar EDH built with Riku. I just built this basic version about two weeks ago, so there are a lot of things to test and tweak. The manabase and manafixing isn't done yet.

But here's my list:



The basic idea is to fly under the radar with cards that benefit everybody so that you won't get killed. Also have some protection so that people won't attack you or can't win the game, stuff like that. All that serves to buy enough time to ramp into enough mana to cast all the crazy chaos spells. Winning is just secondary.

Just this weekend I had a game where I had a ton of mana and a Mindmoil which got me through my deck about two times and I could cast a lot of silly spells, which was really really fun for me.
I got killed the turn after, but the look on my opponents face when my turn basically took 10 minutes just to do basically nothing was priceless

Maybe you can get some ideas from my list, I definetly got some from yours!

I have had chaos riku built for a while;

chandra, the firebrand is awesome for our deck.

collective voyage, i found is too powerful. it really spirals the games too fast too soon (like a turn 2 cast of this can give people 6 lands given sol ring and untapped opponent's lands). it just allows the combo players to skip alot of the turns they need to set up. I would recommend switching this with new frontiers, unless you are not in a combo heavy meta.

chaos deck also needs chaos warp

i feel like you can remove the vow's from your deck and just run propoganda or collective restraint

check out the decklist in my blog for other ideas. hope it turns out as fun as you intend it to be

No Goblin Game? O.o

The deck has undergone significant changes. It's become a lot bluer, with more counterspells and a bigger focus on a copying theme. I've found the deck is vulnerable to people picking off hug cards they don't like - say, a player that benefits from excess mana letting me ramp everyone but destroying Font of Mythos and Howling Mine to hinder the other players, so I'm looking for some more ways to protect my stuff. I'm definitely going to grab a Swiftfoot Boots soon and some cards like Asceticism or Turn Aside.

That said, the deck is pretty much completely functional at this point. It's probably just going to need tuning from here on.

Old list and description archived here:

Another year, some less significant changes. Spell Crumple is out because tuck is gone, and Split Decision is here in its place. There are a couple more creatures in the deck now since having an empty field is one of its weaknesses, but I'm still looking for more. Jace Beleren got cut for being the least consistent group draw in the deck, and was replaced with Well of Ideas.