Card
Rionya, Fire Dancer
Mana cost {3}{R}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard 3/4
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create X tokens that are copies of another target creature you control, where X is one plus the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn. They gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
Part of 40 known combos, 12 of them two-card. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C21 · #55
- Cheapest printing
- €1.01
- EDHREC salt
- 0.53
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Combat Celebrant, Terror of the Peaks, Breath of Fury, Port Razer, Bloodthirster, Aurelia, the Warleader, Godo, Bandit Warlord, Lightning Runner, Scourge of the Throne, Akki Battle Squad, Biovisionary, Azor, the Lawbringer
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Combat Celebrant, Terror of the Peaks, Breath of Fury, Port Razer, Bloodthirster, Aurelia, the Warleader, Godo, Bandit Warlord, Lightning Runner, Scourge of the Throne, Akki Battle Squad, Biovisionary, Azor, the Lawbringer
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Combat Celebrant, Terror of the Peaks, Breath of Fury, Port Razer, Bloodthirster, Aurelia, the Warleader, Godo, Bandit Warlord, Lightning Runner, Scourge of the Throne, Akki Battle Squad, Biovisionary, Azor, the Lawbringer
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Combat Celebrant, Terror of the Peaks, Breath of Fury, Port Razer, Bloodthirster, Aurelia, the Warleader, Godo, Bandit Warlord, Lightning Runner, Scourge of the Throne, Akki Battle Squad, Biovisionary, Azor, the Lawbringer (early with Combat Celebrant, Terror of the Peaks, Breath of Fury, Port Razer, Bloodthirster, Aurelia, the Warleader, Godo, Bandit Warlord, Lightning Runner, Scourge of the Throne, Akki Battle Squad, Biovisionary, Azor, the Lawbringer)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
40 known combos, 12 of them two-card.
- Rionya, Fire Dancer + Combat Celebrant
Produces: Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature tokens with haste, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Rionya, Fire Dancer + Terror of the Peaks
Produces: Near-infinite damage
View on Commander Spellbook - Breath of Fury + Rionya, Fire Dancer
Produces: Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is copying something else, the tokens enter the battlefield as whatever that creature is copying. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
The triggered ability counts all instants and sorceries that were cast before it resolves. If you cast instant spells in response to the ability, those spells will count. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the tokens enter the battlefield. Any "As [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[This creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied creature will also work. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is itself a token, the tokens created by Rionya copy the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
The tokens copy exactly what is printed on the creature and nothing else (unless that creature is a token or is copying something else; see below). They don't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast