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Reaper King EDH (Super Budget)

Commander / EDH Budget Five Color Tribal

LemonCurry


Another one of my $30 budget decks. This one is five colours, which is especially tricky when working on a budget.

I have been wanting to build a Reaper King deck for a while now. What I love most about the card is that he synergizes around what is perhaps the jankiest and least supported creature type in Magic's history: scarecrows.

There are many ways to build a Reaper King deck, and the most powerful ones don't really remain true to the scarecrow theme. Given that most scarecrows are extremely cheaply priced, I think a scarecrow tribal EDH deck is perfect for a budget deck. So aside from the mana base, deck construction wasn't that tricky.

Speaking of the mana base, I decided to make blue and green our primary two colours and leave the other three as splash colours. We need a lot of ramp and colour fixing, so we are running the cheap ramp staples: Rampant Growth, Farseek, Cultivate, Explosive Vegetation, and Shard Convergence. We are also running the newly printed basic landcycling cards that are extremely good outside of their fixing utility: Ancient Excavation, and Sylvan Reclamation. We also have a lot of mana rocks in Commander's Sphere, Darksteel Ingot, Manalith and Fellwar Stone.

Although this is a five colour deck, most of the spells we will be casting only cost generic mana. This gives us a great opportunity to run lands like the Panoramas--they can tap for colourless mana right away, and we don't need to worry about cracking them until necessary.

Given all of this mana fixing we have, our plan is to ramp into our general, holding off our scarecrow spells until he is in play. Then we go to town.

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

18 - 0 Rares

30 - 0 Uncommons

34 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.48
Tokens Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W
Folders look into, EDH, budget edh, Budget Scarecrows
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