Risona, Asari Commander

Risona is a scrappy little Samurai who rewards you for swinging in early and often. The gameplan is straightforward: attack with your commander to stack indestructible counters, making her progressively harder to remove while you rack up commander damage. She's best built as a voltron-lite strategy where you're not going all-in on equipment, but rather using cheap tricks, pump spells, and evasion to ensure your attacks connect. The indestructible counter acts as a damage race timer—your opponents have to take hits or actively damage you to strip them off, which limits their ability to stabilize.

The beauty of Risona is her haste and low mana cost mean you're threatening attacks by turn two or three. You want a lean deck with efficient beaters, combat tricks, and ways to protect her when she matters most. Cards that give evasion, temporary boosts, or repeated damage triggers all help push through. Since she punishes damage going to you by removing counters, you're naturally incentivized to stay on the offensive rather than play passively—it keeps her threat level climbing.

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