Will Riker wants a deck that puts expensive cards onto the battlefield without paying for them. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Library Manipulation.
Mana cost
Red ()
Power / toughness4 / 3
RarityRare
At the beginning of combat on your turn, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal two land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Sacrifice those lands at the beginning of your next end step.
Picked for what they do in Will Riker's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Will Riker's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Open the full glossary
Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryRPlayers write colors as letters: R for red.Cheat into PlayCheat into Play decks put huge creatures and other expensive cards onto the battlefield without paying their mana costs. A card says "put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield", and an eight-mana dragon is attacking on turn three. Sneak Attack Kaalia of the Vast Natural OrderOpen the Cheat into Play pageCheat into PlayPuts permanents straight onto the battlefield without casting them, from your deck, your hand or your graveyard. Skipping the cast skips the mana cost, and counterspells with it. Genesis Wave, Coiling OracleOpen the Cheat into Play pageCard SelectionImproves what you draw rather than how much: you look at the top few cards of your library and decide what stays on top. Ponder lets you rearrange the top three, Serum Visions lets you scry, and Consider lets you surveil. It makes your draws more reliable without giving you extra cards.Open the Card Selection pageRampAn effect that accelerates your mana, giving you a reusable mana source beyond the usual one land per turn. Cultivate Rampant GrowthOpen the Ramp pageLibrary ManipulationCards that let you look at, rearrange or play from the top of your deck, so you control what you draw next.Open the Library Manipulation page
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