Reaper King / Jegantha - Changeling Tribal

Commander / EDH* Changeling Jegantha, the Wellspring

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Land (38)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Aura Shards

Changelings (30)

• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Fire-Belly Changeling
• 1x Guardian Gladewalker
• 1x Impostor of the Sixth Pride
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Skeletal Changeling
• 1x Three Tree Mascot
• 1x Unsettled Mariner
• 1x Woodland Changeling
• 1x Avian Changeling
• 1x Barkform Harvester
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Ghostly Changeling
• 1x Gladewalker Ritualist
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mistwalker
• 1x Moonglove Changeling
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x The Bears of Littjara
• 1x Venomous Changeling
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Changeling Hero
• 1x Changeling Titan
• 1x Morophon, the Boundless

Artifact (9)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Legacy Weapon

Commander (1)

Companion (1)

Kindred Creatures (12)

• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harabaz Druid
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Scorn Effigy
• 1x Bala Ged Thief
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Sliver Gravemother
• 1x Sliver Hivelord

Other Creatures (3)

• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exterminate!
• 1x Formless Genesis

Instant (2)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ghostway

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Jegantha, the Wellspring

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Maybeboard

Other (47)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Heap Doll
• 1x Jawbone Skulkin
• 1x Ayula, Queen Among Bears
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Chief Engineer
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Birthing Boughs
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Drogskol Captain
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
• 1x Atla Palani, Nest Tender
• 1x Brago, King Eternal
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Merchant Raiders
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Changeling Hero
• 1x Changeling Titan
• 1x Coercive Recruiter
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
• 1x Greatbow Doyen
• 1x Hagra Diabolist
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Sen Triplets
• 1x Timber Protector
• 1x Timeless Lotus
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner
• 1x Archon of Valor's Reach
• 1x Legacy Weapon
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Morophon, the Boundless

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Anyone who's been tempted to build a Scarecrow deck knows that, although it's fun to blow something up sometimes, scarecrows suck. Well, I was tempted once. This deck used to be full of scarecrows and the few changelings that existed around the time of Lorwyn. Eventually, I started putting in Slivers to boost the changelings, and realized that it would just be better to make a real Sliver deck, which became deck:first-sliverjegantha-tribalfcintruder-alarm. The shell of this deck remained however, and over the years I'd thought about using allies and other tribes to support the changelings. None of these really worked out that well, but after Modern Horizons 1, and then Kaldheim, there are more options to make this deck viable.

It's a pretty straight forward deck. Get Reaper King out, play changelings to destroy things, then swing at opponents with creatures and Reaper King. I've opted to include only the changlings with mana-value 3 or less. If you can start blowing up opponent's lands early enough, it stops them from presenting more threats and interacting, then your opponents will never be able to look in the mirror again, knowing that they lost to scarecrows.

It's best to cast Reaper King with enough mana left to be able to cast another changeling or two that same turn, as Reaper King often gets removed by opponents as soon as possible. Reaper King getting removed is the deck's biggest weakness. By casting Jegantha before casting Reaper King, Reaper King can be cast with Jegantha's mana and then have plenty of mana left to cast changelings on the same turn.

There are a few combos, including:

Magda, Brazen Outlaw combos with Cryptolith Rite, or mana Slivers and Changelings, to generate treasures, and sacrifice them to tutor for key combo artifacts like Maskwood Nexus and Clock of Omens. With Magda and these two artifacts in play, or Magda with Clock of Omens and and artifact Changeling, you can generate infinite treasure tokens, by tapping a treasure token and a Dwarf that is also an artifact, to untap the artifact Dwarf with Clock of Omens, creating a treasure token, and repeating. Although these treasure tokens are tapped, they don't need to be tapped for mana, with Maskwood Nexus all creatures in the deck are Dragons, and can be tutored for by sacrificing treasures to Magda. Get all your creatures out, blow everything up, attack with everything.

There is a goofy combo with Changeling Berserker, Changeling Hero, and Changeling Titan, which can blow everything up via a champion loop. Each of these can champion the other, so once one of them champions another, if that one that championed is championed, is will leave play returning the first champion to play, which can champion the third champion, which will return the second champion to champion the first one, etc... As long as Reaper King is in play, each time they return to play, the champions will blow up another thing.

Ghostway and Eerie Interlude are included to protect Reaper King from removal. Although they are not the best way to protect Reaper King, they can also function to flicker your Changelings to trigger Reaper King again.

The Kindred Creatures section of the deck is flexible, in that many of these creatures could be replaced with more, or other of your favorite kin.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 1 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Copy Clone, Foretell, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Shapeshifter X/X C, Treasure
Folders	Decks