Card
Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
Mana cost {2}{U}
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer 2/3
Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature, until end of turn, that creature can't be blocked by creatures your opponents control. Steal — {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target creature an opponent controls onto target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 60 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIC · #41
- Cheapest printing
- €0.39
- EDHREC salt
- 0.36
- Color identity
- Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
60 known combos.
- Genestealer Patriarch + Woe Strider + Resourceful Defense + Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Genestealer Patriarch + Reluctant Role Model + Phantom Train + Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Genestealer Patriarch + Thermopod + Host of the Hereafter + Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
To move a counter from one permanent to another, the counter is removed from the first permanent and put on the second. Any abilities that care about a counter being removed from or put onto a permanent will apply. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
Once a creature has been blocked, Rikku's first ability won't cause it to become unblocked.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast