the king of tears by Pancake45

Format: Commander

Commander: The Reaper, King No More

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund -1/-1 counters and Aristocrats attrition strategy helmed by The Reaper, King No More. The primary game plan revolves around distributing -1/-1 counters across opposing creatures to systematically shrink and destroy threats while triggering powerful token-generation engines like Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, Nest of Scarabs, and Flourishing Defenses. As opposing creatures with counters die, The Reaper, King No More steals them, compounding board advantage and leaving opponents starved for resources. Mid-game transitions rely on card engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and The Scorpion God to maintain momentum, leading into lethal aristocrat drain via Blood Artist, Cauldron of Essence, and Grave Venerations alongside swarms of tokens. While the deck boasts immense creature control and resilient graveyard recovery, it possesses limited stack interaction and scarce permanent protection, leaving its engine vulnerable to exile-based board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
  • 1 Banewhip Punisher
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blight Rot
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Carnifex Demon
  • 1 Cathartic Pyre
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Channeler Initiate
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Crumbling Ashes
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Darkness Descends
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flourishing Defenses
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Grim Affliction
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 High Perfect Morcant
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incremental Blight
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Liliana, Death Wielder
  • 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Midnight Banshee
  • 1 Mornsong Aria
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Necroskitter
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skinrender
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Spitting Dilophosaurus
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Reaper, King No More
  • 1 The Scorpion God
  • 1 Torment of Scarabs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Viridian Corrupter
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Void Mirror
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zimone's Experiment