Reaper King

Legendary Artifact Creature — Scarecrow

({2W} can be paid with any two mana or with {W}. This card's converted mana cost is 10.)

Other Scarecrow creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever another Scarecrow enters the battlefield under your control, destroy target permanent.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

DreadKhan on DreadKhan

9 months ago

Last_Laugh Reaper King species 'another scarecrow'. They don't get to nuke something for ETBing personally, right?

I do like the idea of using Myriad with Reyhan, that might be more Reyhan tech than I've seen to date! I'll definitely take a look at your deck!

DreadKhan on Stangg, Double the Trouble (Competitively Casual)

1 year ago

The legend rule will remove the duplicates before resolving your ETB triggers, this does nothing to any triggers on the stack, they'll still happen. If you use Rite of Replication on Reaper King they not only ETB, they'll all see each other doing it. You'll have only 1 Reaper King when the triggers try to resolve, but get iirc 25 triggers in total.

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Legendary quotes the rules, which state that you must actually control 2 permanents with the same name to trigger it, you don't check the state-based action while casting, it's when more than one achieve permanent status. Any card/token has to ETB first to become a permanent.

Similarly, death triggers don't care how a creature entered the graveyard, it cares that the creature was on the battlefield first before going to the graveyard. In Magic the one and only way to trigger a death trigger is to place a creature (for any reason) in the graveyard from the battlefield. Sacrifice for example is 100% separate from the graveyard, you can easily end up sacrificing a creature to exile, at which point it won't create a death trigger. Likewise destroy effects can fail to create death tiggers very easily.

AstroAA on I keep losing to Precon …

1 year ago

This is one of the reasons why I fear individual players and their particular decks and not individual commanders. I used to play with a group that would run the jankiest shit like Reaper King tribal scarecrows combo or Bladewing the Risen storm - things that when you hear about them your first thought is "What the fuck? How does that work?". However, the players behind those decks are absolute monsters and will win out of nowhere turn two or three. Easily some of the best players I've ever played with, and a big reason why I love tuning my decks to be the best they can be.

DreadKhan on Cheap dragon

2 years ago

Those are all good choices I think. It's pretty fun to fiddle with a deck list, but it's a good habit to fiddle with it before you order the cards, or you'll end up with a collection of weird cards that don't quite make the cut sitting around. I could be wrong, but I think the mono-colour non-legendary dragons from D&D don't translate well to Commander, with 40 life and 3 opponents, they will feel too small for their mana input I fear. Even my Eldrazi deck, which runs pretty big Eldrazi tends to feel a bit small at times, a 9 mana value creature in Standard is not very big in Commander unfortunately.

I was thinking that both Stinging Study and possibly Rush of Knowledge. Spirit of Resistance might be worth a look if you find getting Tiamat out isn't hard. Rush can draw a bunch, I run it in Reaper King because he's 10 mana, but drawing more than 5 off of Rush is good value IMHO. You could look at some of the Changelings out there, but TBH most aren't very good creatures, and dragons can beat serious face if you can get them out.

RobinsonCrusoe89 on EDH Reaper King Changeling

2 years ago

Thank you, DreadKhan for your input. Blinking my changelings sounds brutal (for my opponents).
I actually plan on using the Reaper King more as a constant threat in the commandzone and only bring him out if absolutely necessary. My goal was to build a WUBRG Changeling Deck. The Reaper provided that and some nice benefits on top.

enpc on Reaper King, Commander of all the little folk

2 years ago

If you're already running Saheeli Rai, then Felidar Guardian seems like a good fit for the deck. Not only does it provide an infinite token combo, but also can flicker any of your scarecrows to trigger Reaper King's vindicate effect.

AareZ on Fun Commander/Archetype recommendation

2 years ago

I actually put together an Atraxa, Praetors' Voice phyrexian themed -1-1 proliferate deck (only digital for brainstorming) and now going to think about Reaper King more.

Then i will decide what to buy in paper. Scarecrow tribal and changelings look pretty uninteresting tho. Most changelings have no real flavour. And scarecrows are mostly bad.

Reaper King voltron with many scythes would be cool too but doesnt use his ability at all.

Reaper King is such a cool card with a really awesome Artwork and flavour. I wish i had a fun viable way to build it right now.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice is a bit overused (and no 5c unfortunately)but a -1-1 theme with loads of proliferate feels like a really cool way to play.

Any opinions?

griffstick on Fun Commander/Archetype recommendation

2 years ago

Reaper King is so much fun to build around