Reaper King by CapnHaven

Format: Commander

Commander: Reaper King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized 5-color tribal control build helmed by Reaper King. Its core engine leverages the commander's ability to destroy any target permanent whenever another Scarecrow enters the battlefield. Through a high density of cheap Scarecrows, changelings, and trigger multipliers like Panharmonicon, Roaming Throne, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, and Yarok, the Desecrated, the deck routinely wipes opposing boards, including lands, to induce an asymmetric resource lock. Mana production is enabled by comprehensive land typing, green land ramp, and artifact color fixing like Chromatic Lantern. Card draw engines such as Kindred Discovery and Guardian Project keep hands full of low-cost Scarecrows to sustain destruction cycles. In addition to crushing combat damage backed by vindicate triggers, the deck packs an alternate win condition in Painter's Servant and Grindstone, allowing it to mill out opponents when standard combat paths are obstructed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Antler Skulkin
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Chainbreaker
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cloud Key
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Displacer Kitten
• 1 Distant Melody
• 1 Dread Tiller
• 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fang Skulkin
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fateful Discovery
• 1 Field Creeper
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Flickering Hound
• 4 Forest
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Furycalm Snarl
• 1 Grim Poppet
• 1 Grindstone
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Heap Doll
• 1 Helm of the Host
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Hidden Hideout
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 2 Island
• 1 Jetmir's Garden
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lockjaw Snapper
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Mirrorworks
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Oasis Gardener
• 1 Osseous Sticktwister
• 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1 Painter's Servant
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plains
• 1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Reaper King
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
• 1 Return to Nature
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1 Scarecrone
• 1 Scaretiller
• 1 Scuttlemutt
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 1 Sparring Dummy
• 1 Springleaf Parade
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 The Reaper, King No More
• 1 The Swarmweaver
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Thornwatch Scarecrow
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Unsettled Mariner
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Waterbender's Restoration
• 1 Wickerfolk Indomitable
• 1 Wickerfolk Thresher
• 1 Wickersmith's Tools
• 1 Wildfire Wickerfolk
• 1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Wreckage Wickerfolk
• 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground