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River Song
Legendary Creature — Human Time Lord Rogue
Meet in Reverse — You draw cards from the bottom of your library rather than the top. Spoilers — Whenever an opponent scries, surveils, or searches their library, put a +1/+1 counter on River Song. Then River Song deals damage to that player equal to its power.
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“Punish library tutors and scries while growing into a flying damage threat.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Commander damage, Combat damage
Spellslinger, Tempo
Strategy
River Song is a clever tempo threat that grows stronger whenever your opponents interact with their libraries. Your deck wants to goad opponents into scrying, surveilling, and searching—which happens naturally in most games through tutors, scry lands, cantrips, and fetchlands. As they do, River Song picks up +1/+1 counters and starts dealing damage, creating a growing clock that's hard to ignore. You're essentially punishing their normal play patterns while slowly burning them out.
The deck is built around two angles: first, naturally encourage library manipulation through cards that force or incentivize scrying and searching. Second, lean into your own scrying and surveilling to trigger River Song while smoothing your draws (thanks to "Meet in Reverse"). Cards like Scheming Symmetry, Misfortune, and fetchlands work overtime here. You'll also run efficient blue-red creatures and removal to pressure the board while River Song grows in the background, turning into a flying evasive finisher that closes games faster than opponents expect.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey fetchlands; use budget scry lands like Mystic Sanctuary and basic dual lands. Swap expensive tutors like Mystical Tutor for Scheming Symmetry and Flusterstorm.
Signature Cards
Inclusion = % of River Song decks running this card. +lift = percentage-point boost over the format average.
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