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Rionya, Fire Dancer

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Copy effects and spellslinging usually pull in opposite directions: most copies are one-shot instants, and most spell-count payoffs reward the wrong permanent types. This design welds them at the combat step, minting hasty copies of a chosen creature scaled by the instants and sorceries you've already cast that turn. The baseline is one copy for free, so the trigger does something even on a turn you cast nothing, but the ceiling climbs with every burn spell or cantrip you chain first. What keeps it from spiraling into a permanent army is the exile clause at the next end step: these are attack-and-vanish bodies, so the payoff is combat damage and enter-the-battlefield value rather than a growing board. That timing reshapes what you want to copy. A vanilla beater is fine, but the copies also stack whatever triggers the target carries, so the sharper builds point it at creatures whose enter-the-battlefield or attack triggers matter more than their stats: a copy that draws a card or drains life on the way in loses nothing when it's exiled at end of turn. The result is a card that asks you to sequence a whole turn (spells first, combat trigger second, alpha strike third) rather than deploy a threat and pass, a genuinely different rhythm from the usual red aggression.

Rionya, Fire Dancer (c21)
C21 · #55rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.95
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Oracle Text

Rules text

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.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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