The reaper, king no more by user5312399

Format: Commander

Commander: The Reaper, King No More

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a -1/-1-counter aristocrats combo deck built to make every counter, death, and token trigger feed a drain loop. The primary plan is to land a counter-engine pair - Hapatra plus Yawgmoth - then chain Snake sacrifices into a Blood Artist or Bastion of Remembrance finish. Secondary paths include Mikaeus + Puppeteer Clique with Goblin Bombardment, and a midrange wither plan led by Maha, Kulrath Knight, or Massacre Girl. The Reaper acts as a bonus recursion/removal engine, not the core, and there is no hidden commander; the list is a coherent counter-matter deck that can win without casting its commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Channeler Initiate
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dusk Urchins
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Flourishing Defenses
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fume Spitter
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Hapatra's Mark
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Kulrath Knight
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroskitter
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Obelisk Spider
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Quillspike
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Snuffers
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Reaper, King No More
  • 1 The Scorpion God
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wickerbough Elder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat