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The Reaper, King No More
Legendary Artifact Creature — Scarecrow · {2/B}{2/R}{2/G} · Black/Green/Red commander
When The Reaper enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Do this only once each turn.
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What The Reaper, King No More actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen The Reaper enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
- Triggered ability · deathWhenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Do this only once each turn.
What a The Reaper, King No More deck needs
Plays as removal payoff. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- -1/-1 counter placers and removal (opposing creatures with -1/-1 counters dying come to you)
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander
The The Reaper, King No More deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 10× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for The Reaper, King No More
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Diabolic Servitude4 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
Combos with The Reaper, King No More
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Reaper, King No More is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Reaper, King No More + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Phyrexian Altar662 decks
- The Reaper, King No More + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Goblin Bombardment601 decks
- The Reaper, King No More + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Ashnod's Altar378 decks
- The Reaper, King No More + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Viscera Seer260 decks
- The Reaper, King No More + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Carrion Feeder130 decks
- The Reaper, King No More + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Altar Of Dementia93 decks