Reaper King

[The Pharmacist]

Been working on this deck for about a week now. It's a ton of fun to play. Let me know what you guys think

Reaper King

Changeling/Scarecrow

Mirror Entity
Chameleon Colossus
Changeling Hero
Moonglove Changeling
Game-Trail Changeling
Changeling Sentinel
Changeling Berserker
Changeling Titan
Cairan Wanderer
War-Spike Changeling
Mothdust Changeling
Amoeboid changeling
Skeletal changeling
Woodland Changeling
Taurean Mauler
Shapesharer
Turtleshell Changeling
Ghostley Changeling
Fire-Belly Changeling
avian Changeling
Mistform ultimus
Scarecrone
Heap Doll

Other Men/Lords

Eternal Witness
Blood Speaker
Sliver Overlord
Merrow reejerey
Elvish Archdruid
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hreo
Goblin Chieftain
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Lovisa Coldeyes
Solemn Simulacrum
Tidespout Tyrant
Primeval Titan

Tutor/draw

Demonic Tutor
Diabolic Tutor
Opportunity
Jace's Ingenuity
Crystal Ball
Sylvan library
Concentrate
Tidings
Harmonize
Realms Uncharted

Speed

Sol Ring
Seek The Horizon
Kodama's Reach
Explosive Vegetation
Skyshroud Claim
Cultivate
Spectral Searchlight
Darksteel Ingot
Coldsteel Heart
Gilded Lotus

Removal

Wrath of God
Day of Judgment
Damnation

Protection

Whispersilk Cloak
Diplomatic Immunity
Darksteel plate

Other

Hull Breach
Aura Shards
Creeping Mold
Erratic Portal

Land

Bayou
taiga
Badlands
Plateau
Underground Sea
Scrubland
Savannah
Tropical Island
Volcanic Island
Tundra
Mountain
3 Island
1 Plains
3 Forest
2 Swamp
City of Brass
Elephant Graveyard
Unholy Grotto
Darigaaz's Caidera
Rith's Grove
Dromar's Cavern
Crosis's Catocombs
Treva's Ruins
Windswept Heath
Scalding tarn
Polluted Delta
Marsh Flats
Verdant Catacombs

[Hunding Gjornersen]

Swarmyard regenerates most of your stuff. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge would make a good Survival target.

[Octopusman]

Swarmyard regenerates most of your stuff. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge would make a good Survival target.

I love where you're going with this. I know you want to maximize scarecrows but maybe a joiner adept might be useful in there somewhere.
I'm worried about your mana base/general cost.Wonder if a composite golem could be worth the slot. Crystal Quarry?

I LOVE the changlings with the lords. No use for an Eladamri's Call to get what you need?


With General and some changelings. Ghostway could be pretty funny!

This is so rad. Keep up the good work!

[edit] Also, Mistform Ultimus too weak for this deck :(

[The Pharmacist]

I love where you're going with this. I know you want to maximize scarecrows but maybe a joiner adept might be useful in there somewhere.
I'm worried about your mana base/general cost.Wonder if a composite golem could be worth the slot. Crystal Quarry?

I LOVE the changlings with the lords. No use for an Eladamri's Call to get what you need?


With General and some changelings. Ghostway could be pretty funny!

This is so rad. Keep up the good work!

[edit] Also, Mistform Ultimus too weak for this deck :(

Yes my mana base is a mess for sure. I just bought all the 3 color Planeshift lands. That will help a ton.

Ghostway was in the deck and It was hit or miss. Right now I've been winning a lot of games just buy getting 3 Changelings out that have the Champion ability. Its hard to do, but if you get it to work. You blow there hole board up.

As for Mistform Ultimus. I forgot about him and I'm sure I'll be adding him

[The Pharmacist]

Just updated the list

[sunshine]

Scuttlemut seems like a solid upgrade from the Searchlight. Also, Mutavault may not help you with color problems but it'll get pretty silly with all the lords you're running.

[Zach Tartell]

Patriarch's Bidding.

[(nameless one)]

Conspiracy can turn all your creatures relevant with Reaper King.

[Zach Tartell]

Conspiracy can turn all your creatures relevant with Reaper King.

Thought of that earlier, but the different lords add both flavor and a TON of utility. Definitely worth keeping.

[The Pharmacist]

Conspiracy can turn all your creatures relevant with Reaper King.

I had Conspiracy in my original list. It was really good if you could drop it fast. I think I'm going to give it another try tho.

[bokwinkle]

I still think that Loxodon Hierarch, Saffi Ericstodder, and Dauntless Escort could add some much-needed protection to "the king". I really like Saffi because he also acts as a way to get another activation from a killed scarecrow, and he can be brought back with 'Lark. Also Twilight Shepard is very good at giving you second chances to play vindicates. I understand the desire to keep the vindicate population high...but with that percentage the importance of reaper king dramatically increases and the ability to protect him becomes more valuable as well.

I keep trying to run Squee in my Naya EDH deck and he just never makes the cut. It's too easy to string together a bunch of cards to pitch to the yard - I never seem to run out of survival targets. I'm more likely to run Dust Elemental to return survival target to my hand than to reach for squee.

Also, in EDH forestwalk is pretty damn good...everyone plays green...so I wouldn't hesitate to run the Elf lord. Speaking of Lords, what about Wort, Boggart Auntie - recursion seems like a good plan.

In the acceleration I'd run Coalition Relic over Spectral Searchlight - it's just better, it always gets you at least one mana of any color...and sometimes 2.

Also...Greater good and Tooth and Nail still seem...good, if not great. Greater good offers you a sac outlet too, which is nice if someone goes to exile an important or difficult to remove lord (like timber protector, Crystalline Sliver, or Scion)

I'm also a Huge fan of Haakon...if only you had more discard outlets - you might be able to get away with this if you ran more stuff like Sift and Careful consideration over some of your other draw choices...but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Def worth considering though because it makes genesis, anger, wort, and 'Lark so much better it also makes running Knight of the Reliquary, stillmooon cavalier, and Kinsbaile Cavalier even more playable.

Just don't make it too good...lol.

[Tog]

Wow, I'd never even thought of the Hakkon + Changeling interaction. That's so cool! It wouldn't even be that hard to get it in the yard considering you're playing all five colors. Something like blue draw-discard cards (Careful Consideration, Thirst for Knowledge, Sift, Compulsive Research) or Survival of the Fittest/Fauna Shaman.

[The Pharmacist]

I still think that Loxodon Hierarch, Saffi Ericstodder, and Dauntless Escort could add some much-needed protection to "the king". I really like Saffi because he also acts as a way to get another activation from a killed scarecrow, and he can be brought back with 'Lark. Also Twilight Shepard is very good at giving you second chances to play vindicates. I understand the desire to keep the vindicate population high...but with that percentage the importance of reaper king dramatically increases and the ability to protect him becomes more valuable as well.

I keep trying to run Squee in my Naya EDH deck and he just never makes the cut. It's too easy to string together a bunch of cards to pitch to the yard - I never seem to run out of survival targets. I'm more likely to run Dust Elemental to return survival target to my hand than to reach for squee.

Also, in EDH forestwalk is pretty damn good...everyone plays green...so I wouldn't hesitate to run the Elf lord. Speaking of Lords, what about Wort, Boggart Auntie - recursion seems like a good plan.

In the acceleration I'd run Coalition Relic over Spectral Searchlight - it's just better, it always gets you at least one mana of any color...and sometimes 2.

Also...Greater good and Tooth and Nail still seem...good, if not great. Greater good offers you a sac outlet too, which is nice if someone goes to exile an important or difficult to remove lord (like timber protector, Crystalline Sliver, or Scion)

I'm also a Huge fan of Haakon...if only you had more discard outlets - you might be able to get away with this if you ran more stuff like Sift and Careful consideration over some of your other draw choices...but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Def worth considering though because it makes genesis, anger, wort, and 'Lark so much better it also makes running Knight of the Reliquary, stillmooon cavalier, and Kinsbaile Cavalier even more playable.

Just don't make it too good...lol.

I do like Dust Elemental and he could very easy be going in the deck.

After some playing lastnight, I may cut the Survival package. It's good,but I don't think this deck needs its. I'm thinking about adding Wort, Boggart Auntie and some more speed to the deck.

This deck still has trouble with the early game.

[Hunding Gjornersen]

Since you run almost as many as shapeshifters, I'd be worried about drawing into too many mismatched lords and not enough things for them to pump.

[The Pharmacist]

Just added Conspiracy and Sliver Overlord to the deck

[Malchar]

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
Crib Swap

With haakon in play, you can cast crib swap indefinitely as long as you have the mana. You can even crib swap one of your own creatures to trigger reaper king, then keep crib swapping the crib swap token to trigger the king over and over.

[Mnemon]

Have you thought about Volrath's Laboratory and Riptide Replicator? They might be a little expensive but are recurring Vindicates with Reaper King. Also Debtors Knell for the same purpose and more.

[bokwinkle]

yeah, those cards are good, I think he was running them in the original list - but they are all extremely slow.

I feel like there must be a good way to speed up a 5-color deck without running basics for fetching or just forcing artifacts - since the fastest artifacts just produce colorless mana anyway. I don't think the issue is curve - because generally the creatures are pretty cheap - I think it's more the fact that you need several creatures plus a lord to have impact on the board state - essentially any one or 2 of your creatures does nothing. I'm not sure how to fix it atm...giving it some thought.

Maybe the Warchiefs? Something to reduce costs seems most effective rather than ramping. Regardles of what you do to make it faster you're going to walk into wrath effects as well, You'll need something for that as well. Maybe you just need more selective critera for your lords - I see a few that could go pretty easy, with the premise that you're trying to avoid/prevent wrath effects.

I think I'd at least run these:

Daru Warchief
undead Warchief


with serious thought to these

Goblin Warchief
Krosan Warchief


Also I'd consider some tutoring with legs to up your creature counts and look for important cards

Treefolk Harbinger
Flamekin Harbinger


The treefolk can go get timber protector, leaf-crowned elder or a changeling, and the flamekin can go get any changeling or 'Lark. They don't quite replace themselves, but I think it at least can get you something you need at any point in the game.

Lastly, I'm not sure how you feel about the tripple red, but Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is just a house here...either to double a lord effect or create a vindicate effect...he's just good. I can't picture running this deck without him.

[bokwinkle]

For the record, I still think this is funny:

wonder
anger
survival of the fittest
genesis
eternal witness
careful consideration
intuition
Memory Jar
Anvil of Bogardan
Bazaar of Baghdad
Cephalid Coliseum
Greater Good
Probe
Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
Wort, Boggart Auntie
Knight of the Reliquary
Patriarch's Bidding
Crucible of Worlds
Wasteland
Strip mine
Wheel Of Fortune
Tolarian Winds
Windfall

just sayin'...

[The Pharmacist]

Just updated the deck list as to the way I'm running it now. Fixed the mana so it's not all nonbasic now. I added the following cards to the deck

Wort, Boggart Auntie- Getting a changeling back every turn seams good.

Dust Elemental- Haven't got him in play yet, but could be really good late game

Darksteel Plate- No need to explain

I'm really thinking this will fix the mana problem

Cultivate
Skyshroud Claim
Explosive Vegetation
Kodama's reach
Seek the Horizon