Scarecrows by SailorSmithsonian

Format: Commander

Creator: SailorSmithsonian

Commander: Reaper King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color tribal control and attrition engine commanded by Reaper King. It uses a dense suite of cheap Scarecrows, Changelings, and blink effects to turn its commander into a repeatable, asymmetric permanent destruction engine. The primary game plan focuses on fixing all five colors in turns 1 through 4, deploying Reaper King on turn 5, and locking down opponents starting on turn 6 by destroying key lands, commanders, and artifacts. Trigger doublers such as Panharmonicon, Roaming Throne, Molten Echoes, and mass blink spells like Ghostway amplify this removal to dismantle opposing boards entirely. The deck finishes games through combat damage with buffed Scarecrows, Mirror Entity activations, or kicked Rite of Replication, which triggers 25 Vindicate effects at once. High-efficiency counterspells and free interaction protect the engine during vulnerable setup turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Grand Architect
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heap Doll
  • 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Oasis Gardener
  • 1 Osseous Sticktwister
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pili-Pala
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reaper King
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scarecrone
  • 1 Scarecrow Guide
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Scuttlemutt
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shire Scarecrow
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wildfire Wickerfolk
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wreckage Wickerfolk
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Zagoth Triome