Reaper King by Fierro

Format: Commander

Commander: Reaper King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color tribal control build helmed by Reaper King. It exploits the changeling mechanic to turn every low-cost Shapeshifter into a repeatable Vindicate trigger. Supported by ramp and fixing like Arcane Signet and Pillar of Origins, the deck casts Reaper King on Turn 4. On Turn 5, it begins systematically destroying opponents' lands, commanders, and key permanents. Value multipliers like Panharmonicon, Roaming Throne, and Yarok, the Desecrated double every trigger, while massive draw spells such as Rush of Knowledge and One with the Machine exploit Reaper King's printed mana value of 10 to draw 10 cards. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through combat damage with pumped changelings, a devastating kicked Rite of Replication, or an infinite mana combo using Isochron Scepter, Dramatic Reversal, and Walking Ballista.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Amoeboid Changeling
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bring to Light
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Changeling Berserker
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crib Swap
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deadeye Navigator
• 1 Dramatic Reversal
• 1 Eerie Interlude
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fire-Belly Changeling
• 1 Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Foraging Wickermaw
• 6 Forest
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Impostor of the Sixth Pride
• 2 Island
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Masked Vandal
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Mimic Vat
• 1 Mirror Entity
• 1 Mothdust Changeling
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Negate
• 1 One with the Machine
• 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pillar of Origins
• 2 Plains
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rally the Ancestors
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Reaper King
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Rush of Knowledge
• 1 Rushed Rebirth
• 1 Scarecrone
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Settle the Wreckage
• 1 Skeletal Changeling
• 1 Snow-Covered Forest
• 2 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
• 2 Snow-Covered Plains
• 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Taurean Mauler
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Universal Automaton
• 1 Unsettled Mariner
• 1 Vivid Crag
• 1 Vivid Creek
• 1 Vivid Grove
• 1 Vivid Marsh
• 1 Vivid Meadow
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Woodland Changeling
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yarok, the Desecrated