Protect the Crops!

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (30)

• 1x Antler Skulkin
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Changeling Hero
• 1x Court Hussar
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Fang Skulkin
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
• 1x Heap Doll
• 1x Kinsbaile Cavalier
• 1x Knight Exemplar
• 1x Knight of New Alara
• 1x Knight-Captain of Eos
• 1x Kulrath Knight
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Lyev Skyknight
• 1x Marton Stromgald
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x One-Eyed Scarecrow
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Skeletal Changeling
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Stillmoon Cavalier
• 1x Stormfist Crusader
• 1x Thrull Parasite
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wingrattle Scarecrow

Land (18)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blighted Steppe
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Plains
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Vivid Grove

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ashes of the Fallen
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Relic of Legends
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Circle of Loyalty
• 1x Trading Post

Instant (4)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Grim Harvest
• 1x Grixis Charm
• 1x Reap

Commander (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Imposing Grandeur
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Reap and Sow
• 1x Ugin's Insight

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Compost
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Xenograft

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You know what scarecrows like? Crops.

You know who else likes crops? That's right, knights.

Which brings me velocitously to the classic odd couple of the deck, Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Reaper King, aka "Haakey and the King". In honesty, the deck is built for Haakon. But since you can't actually play him from the command zone, a compromise becomes necessary. And what better than to team him up with his most naturalist ally, the scarecrows!? All you need is a few semi-arbitrary agriculture-oriented cards and you're set to go!

Most of the time, as you might imagine, the scarecrows and knights work pretty much independently of one another, with knights doing the bashing and scarecrows doing the scaring (i.e. destroying), but they intersect at several key points.

Xenograft is a Reaper staple and self-evidently makes your knights super-dangerous. But the real fun happens when Haakon, Stromgald Scourge combines with Ashes of the Fallen. Your scarecrows become knights in the graveyard, and since knights can be played from the graveyard, that spells trouble. Scarecrone becomes an inexaustable supply of cards and destruction, Heap Doll is a straight menace, exiling non-indestructible permanents for one mana-a-time.

The really dirty joker in the pack has got to be Aluren. With about twenty creatures at 3CMC or less, it is always super-useful, but with Haakon about it is plain wrong. Throw Court Hussar into the mix to draw the best third of your deck. And don't let me combine Haakey and Aluren with Ashnod's Altar, because I will take my infinite manna along with unkillable infinitely recurring knights and say thank you very much.

The agriculture theme of the deck adds a little flavour, and incidentally does no harm to its effectiveness. Crop Rotation and Reap and Sow both give you the chance to search for nonbasic land which can be hella useful in a range of emergencies. The most predictable is drawing Haakon to the hand, at which point Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace becomes a real useful card. With Xenograft around, Kher Keep can come in very handy, while Phyrexia's Core provides a bit of redundancy against attempts to exile key artifacts. Soul of the Harvest is a great engine with all the cheapo creatures in the deck. Last but not least, Reap and Compost are cheap as corn and absolute dynamite against opponents who play black; if there is no black out there toss 'em with Rix Maadi and force your opponents to drop the odd card!

Overall the deck is pretty mercurial. Sometimes it just scrapes along, sometimes it wears 'em down with conventional attacks (key man, ya boy Marton Stromgald), and sometimes it just flips and ends the game in a hurry (under one-in-a-million super-optimal conditions it can actually be done in turn 3!). Could similar effects be achieved without anywhere near as much hassle? Probably. Could the deck be more powerful? Clearly. But you are forgetting one thing my friend, and that thing is the crops. Well, I'm not forgetting them, and neither are Haakey and the King. Don't come crying to us when you run out of wheat or whatever.

Key Cards...

• Haakon, Stromgald Scourge

• Buried Alive / Jarad's Orders

• Aluren / Prophet of Kruphix

• Ashnod's Altar / Viscera Seer

• Court Hussar

• Lyev Skyknight

• Knight Exemplar

• Knight-Captain of Eos

• Kinsbaile Cavalier

• Marton Stromgald

Combos with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge...

• Aluren + Court Hussar = Draw unlimited cards.

• Ashes of the Fallen + Ashnod's Altar + Heap Doll = Infinite colourless mana / Exile all non-indestructible permanents.

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Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	74
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Goat 0/1 W, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Plant 0/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W