wither by user7300039

Format: Commander

Commander: The Reaper, King No More

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Jund deck is led by The Reaper, King No More, a commander that spreads -1/-1 counters and steals dying enemy creatures once each turn. The strategy focuses on systematic creature attrition, board suppression, and combat domination. Early turns establish mana fixing and setup permanents such as Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons and Nest of Scarabs. By Turn 4, the deck deploys its commander to begin distributing counters and generating token swarms. The midgame achieves critical onset around Turn 6 through asymmetric control pieces like Kulrath Knight, which paralyzes opposing creatures, or Maha, Its Feathers Night, which reduces opposing toughness to 1 for one-sided board wipes. The deck wins by Turn 8 through wide token attacks and combat damage from stolen opposing creatures. While the deck boasts immense resilience and creature suppression, it remains vulnerable to noncreature combo wins and mass exile sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Return
  • 1 Agent Frank Horrigan
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
  • 1 Banewhip Punisher
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Channeler Initiate
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Crumbling Ashes
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkness Descends
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Tiller
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Dusk Urchins
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Eventide's Shadow
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Ferrafor, Young Yew
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Glistening Oil
  • 1 Grim Poppet
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Hapatra, the Desert Fang
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Incremental Blight
  • 1 Kulrath Knight
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Oft-Nabbed Goat
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Puncture Blast
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Skinrender
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Snuffers
  • 1 Spitting Dilophosaurus
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Reaper, King No More
  • 1 The Scorpion God
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vhati il-Dal
  • 1 Village Pillagers
  • 1 Virulent Wound
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor