The creature list in this deck has two major recurring themes: artifacts and changelings. Having both on him would be ideal of course, but even without these artifacts in play, there are other ways for the deck to deal damage without your commander. Slapping on Lightning Greaves will protect him from spells, whereas either a Darksteel Plate equipped or a Darksteel Forge in play will protect him from destruction and board wipes. So naturally, your opponents will try and counter him or spot remove him off the field, leaving you grinding to a screeching halt. This is where some of the support spells and some of the utility creatures come into play. The more scarecrows (or scarecrow-like creatures) you can summon once he’s on the field means things will start exploding very quickly. When he gets summoned out, he immediately wants the party to begin.

HARVEST TIME ( Reaper King Commander Deck) Harvest Time !Īs I have just mentioned, Reaper King is a very aggressive commander. That said, here is my take on the Reaper King deck. Harvest time is not always a pretty thing after all… There are times when you need to pull back and be conservative and it appears that you’re not doing anything in particular.Other times, you’re just pushing the plunger down over and over again, forcing your opponents to stop you somehow. Regardless of price, this deck plays well and requires a bit of subtlety to play. This is what the Great Pumpkin from Charlie Brown might have looked likeĪs with most of my decks, this one is pretty budget-friendly as far as Commander goes (the lands could be WAY better, but I made due with what I had). When the deck is not popping out scarecrows, then it’s drawing cards and looking for other ways to win by grabbing a big creature or comboing off. The deck’s legion of scarecrows, changelings and other big creatures gets this deck rolling and almost nothing is safe whenever a scarecrow comes into play (so much so that I actually had to promise not to destroy basic lands with my playgroup when using this deck). The Reaper King is a very aggressive commander in the sense that it is akin to having a plunger rigged to ignite explosives every time a scarecrow comes into play. I think the best part of being in 5c, especially such a flexible 5c like RK, is you can run literally anything and everything you want that supports your end goal.Today I will share the second commander deck that I constructed, based around one of the most aggressive strategies available within Magic: the Gathering blowing the s*it out of EVERYTHING. That's how I'd run it, were I to build him. If you can afford fetches that's a big step up, but even stuff like ] and other good mana rocks and fixers would probably do the trick for you. I think the toughest part would be making a manabase that works on a budget (if you're on one). You're in 5c, so you have access to the best ramp, some countermagic support for your combos/making sure RK resolves, good removal in all colors (] for example would be fucking bananas if you went with the flicker/ETB route). If you're a fan of combos, I'd sneak in ] along with ] and Splinter Twin in for the infinite combo complete boardwipe. However, abusing those ETB's would be really brutal, using cards such as ], ], ], ], ] etc. You're right, making occasional use of his ability is pretty subpar, especially combined with the fact that most Scarecrows aren't really that interesting or good.

Take this with a grain of salt since I haven't actually built RK, but I think the best thing to do would be to build a 5c manabase that ramps extremely hard, then play some of the best Scarecrows and Changelings along with a heavy flicker/ETB/token creation theme.

Mtg reaper king edh