Riku of Two Reflections
Two engines stapled to one fragile 2/2 body, both gated behind an open-ended mana tax: that is the whole design tension here. Most copy cards pick a lane (instant-and-sorcery doublers in Izzet, creature-token doublers in green), and the trick of this design is that it asks Temur to do both while charging you twice. The instant-and-sorcery trigger pays per cast and lets you redirect the copy's targets, so a single removal spell answers two threats or a single burn spell splits across two faces. The creature trigger pays
and mints a token copy, which keeps any enters-the-battlefield value intact rather than just stacking power. The catch is the wording you cannot dodge: that second ability only fires off nontoken creatures, so the tokens it makes do not chain into more tokens, capping what could otherwise spiral into a feedback loop. Nothing about this is free; every line of play is a deliberate mana auction against your own development, and the 2/2 shell means the whole apparatus folds to a single removal spell if you over-leverage. The design predates the wave of cleaner, cheaper copy effects that came later, and it remains the canonical "do both" answer for players who refuse to choose between bending their spells and bending their board.




