Reap by JChigiChapel

Format: Commander

Commander: The Reaper, King No More

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund midrange strategy centered on -1/-1 counters, token generation, and creature theft. Commanded by The Reaper, King No More, the deck converts counter distribution into board presence by stealing opposing creatures when they perish with -1/-1 counters. Early turns focus on establishing mana acceleration into key token generators like Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons and Nest of Scarabs. By turns 5 and 6, mass counter engines such as Carnifex Demon, Midnight Banshee, and Black Sun's Zenith systematically shrink opposing boards while creating an army of Insect and Snake tokens. Win conditions operate through asymmetric combat locks via Kulrath Knight and steady life drain from Obelisk Spider, Lasting Tarfire, and All Will Be One. Robust multi-creature reanimation provides strong mid-game resilience against standard removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Return
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ammit Eternal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blight Rot
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Carnifex Demon
  • 1 Channeler Initiate
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Darkness Descends
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Tiller
  • 1 Dusk Urchins
  • 1 Eventide's Shadow
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flourishing Defenses
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Grim Affliction
  • 1 Grim Poppet
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Incremental Blight
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Kulrath Knight
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Midnight Banshee
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Necroskitter
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Obelisk Spider
  • 1 Oft-Nabbed Goat
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Puca's Covenant
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
  • 1 Skinrender
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Snuffers
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Reaper, King No More
  • 1 The Scorpion God
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Pillagers
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Wickersmith's Tools
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery