Riftwing Cloudskate

Creature — Illusion · three generic manaone blue manaone blue mana

the front side of Riftwing Cloudskate
the back of a classic MtG card

Riftwing Cloudskate is part of 8 combos legal in Commander. Often combined with Zacama, Primal Calamity and Volo, Guide to Monsters.

Riftwing Cloudskatethree generic manaone blue manaone blue mana
Creature — Illusion

Flying

When this creature enters, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Suspend 3—one generic manaone blue mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay one generic manaone blue mana and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Mana value
5
Power/Toughness
2/2
Keywords
Flying, Suspend
Color identity
one blue mana

Frequently combined with

The cards that most often join Riftwing Cloudskate across all of its 8 combos.

Roles in combos

Riftwing Cloudskate can stand in for these generic cards, so it also fits the combos that require them.

What Riftwing Cloudskate provides to the combos it is part of.

  • Creature with ETB: "Return a permanent to hand" (Self-Bounce)

Combos with Riftwing Cloudskate

8 combos legal in Commander.

Color Identity: G, U

Cards in combo:
Volo, Guide to Monsters
Food Chain
Riftwing Cloudskate
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: R, G, W, U

Cards in combo:
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Panharmonicon
Riftwing Cloudskate
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite damage to creatures
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: R, G, W, U

Cards in combo:
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
Riftwing Cloudskate
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite damage to creatures
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: R, G, W, U

Cards in combo:
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Riftwing Cloudskate
Starfield Vocalist
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite damage to creatures
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: R, G, W, U

Cards in combo:
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Riftwing Cloudskate
Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite damage to creatures
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: R, G, W, U

Cards in combo:
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
Riftwing Cloudskate
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite damage to creatures
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: W, U, B, R, G

Cards in combo:
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Yarok, the Desecrated
Riftwing Cloudskate
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite damage to creatures
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite storm count

Color Identity: W, U

Cards in combo:
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
Blasting Station
Riftwing Cloudskate
+ 2x Artifact Castable for zero mana that survives
Results in combo:
Infinite artifact ETB
Infinite artifact LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite damage
Infinite death triggers
Infinite storm count
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