Reaper by user6299051

Format: Commander

Commander: Reaper King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color tribal attrition control build helmed by Reaper King. Its core strategy revolves around turning every cheap Changeling and Scarecrow creature into a targeted Vindicate trigger, systematically dismantling opponents' mana bases, commanders, and key engine pieces. The deck leverages heavy tribal redundancy, utilizing shapeshifters like Universal Automaton, Changeling Outcast, and Taurean Mauler alongside trigger multipliers such as Panharmonicon, Molten Echoes, and Reflections of Littjara to wipe opposing boards clean. Robust mana fixing from shocklands, Verge lands, and chromatic artifacts ensures reliable five-color access on curve. Card advantage engines like Rhystic Study and Kindred Discovery keep hands full, while premier protection spells including Fierce Guardianship, Teferi's Protection, and Lightning Greaves shield the commander from disruption. Games conclude through overwhelming combat damage from an enlarged Changeling army, asymmetric extra turns via Expropriate, or an alternate victory condition in Coalition Victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Avian Changeling
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chameleon Colossus
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Coalition Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glimmervoid
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Irregular Cohort
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Moonglove Changeling
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Oasis Gardener
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reaper King
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scarecrone
  • 1 Scarecrow Guide
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Scuttlemutt
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wildfire Wickerfolk
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wreckage Wickerfolk