I really love this deck! As many of the guys who commented before me, I always tried to figure out how to create a working scarecrow deck, and now I found it. :D I really think of building one myself with your deck as a guideline. :)

But I have a question about resurrecting the Reaper King with Scarecrone to play it for only 4 mana.

Is Thirst for Knowledge the only way of discarding a card from your hand(While studying the decklist, I found no other way) and if yes, is it a reliable way of casting it?

Or was this just the original idea and now you use the mechanic of Semblance Anvil to reduce the mana cost and using the colored lands to cast the Reaper?

I'd be glad to get an answer, so I could optimize the deck for my playstyle. :)

Thanks!

Well, yes, It's one of the ways to play him. I do use the discard option + revive, also the Semblance Anvil, and the multicolored mana producers (ie: Scuttlemutt ).

Now, going back to the discard option, keep in mind that you have a kinda crazy drawing power with Scarecrone also, and if you end your turn with more than 7 cards in hand... well, you know what must be done. Also, at the beginning I had a couple of Compulsive Research on the sideboard, now they are back there because of this topic.

Turn 5 is as early as it was possible for this deck to have the King in play.

Thanks for the +1!

Thank you for your quick reply. :)

I playtested the deck a couple of times now and understood how it works. Again, I really, really love this deck and I'll definitely try something similar. :)

Thanks for the idea and best regards!

Love this deck! The synergy with the Reaper King is beautiful! While I admit I can't do much in the way of suggestions for the blue aspect of your deck, I can suggest Zombify and Zombie Infestation to add a few more ways to get the king in the grave and also to bring him out. Again, love the deck and I've been wanting to run a Scarecrow tribal myself forever now! +1 from me!

Have you considered any of the Changeling creatures/sorceries/instants to play off your Reaper King? Mothdust Changeling and Taurean Mauler are the tue main ones I can think of that stay true to your colours and could see some use.

Whoops, realize Reaper King there won't run off of the tribal instants. My bad!

well, you said it. Since they are not artifacts, (artifact is a card type, not a creature type) they don't fit that well in this particular deck, which relies on artifacts for many things. (Scarecrone, Academy Ruins, Darksteel Juggernaut, Thirst for Knowledge, Fabricate, Blinkmoth Urn, Unwinding Clock).

However, they are good to my commander deck under construction to trigger the King, so thanks anyways! :)

Fair enough, fair enough! I suppose now that I look over it the overarching artifact theme is a lot more apparent than the Scarecrow theme. Best of luck on the deck, and +1 from me! Hope it works well for ya!

Have you ever considered Darksteel Forge? It'd give your scarecrows indestructible.

You know, Akroma's Memorial would combo well with your Painter's Servant. I know it's a bit pricey, but it's an option. Another, perhaps less effective option would be the swords, like the Sword of Feast and Famine, which could give targeted protection to your King.

Thank you! Those are great artifacts there!I've only considered, although briefly the Darksteel Forge.But yeah, If I'm to try something different, that would be the artifacts, but the actual ones need more playtesting also.

The Dismal Backwater and the Swiftwater Cliffs, are you running them becasue of the lifegain? If not, I would recommend swapping them out for one or two shock lands of the colours and fill the rest with some thing like Flooded Strand and/or Polluted Delta - it makes your Halimar Depths THAT much better. That is of course if budget allows.

Um... Actually, enpc, they are there because they are the ones I have, instead of shock-lands, which would be the best option, but out of my current budget. Besides that, I've used these that kinda make up for entering tapped with that little life gain, instead of, for example, the gates.

Flooded Strand and the likes, wouldn't be something I wanted to use on this deck: I don't want to mess up the mana base by adding anything else but blue producers, which we use here to pay for all non-artifacts. So the idea is to have "blue lands" that can potentially produce mana of other colors just to lower the cast price of the Reaper King if needed, without adding spells, or any almost-useless basic lands.

Just trying to use the potential that the lands open, while also producing blue* without touching anything else. Does that made sense?

*(except for the colorless Darksteel Citadel, but which adds the "artifact" part, useful for other things)

Thanks for your comments and suggestions guys :)Keep'em coming!

With Flooded Strand andthe like, you can still run a purely blue aman base. The benefit is that with Halimar Depths (which you're running 3 off), if you don't like any of the top three cards, next turn's play would be a fetch to crack into an Island (or Island/X shock) simply so yo ucan shuffle your library and get somethign else. You can very easily do the same with things like Terramorphic Expanse or Evolving Wilds - they're simply there as a way to shuffle your library and thin the deck of lands.

See? Didn't think of that! If I only had a brain! (Clever reference makes up for that?)

Seems interesting! Even more with the Terramorphic Expanse / Evolving Wilds approach. It's even budget friendly!

This is one of the reasons I love to share my deck here :)

I feel as though conjurers closet would be good in this deck as it blinks scarecrows in and out of play at the end of every turn, thus making even more use of reaper kings effect

I'd stay away from just trying to use reaper king's effect though, the main thing that should be focused on is actually getting him into play

why the Painter's Servants?

foofoononishoe Because of Lurebound Scarecrow and he used to have Watchwing Scarecrow in the mainboard. Grand Architect is another good reason as well

If you had no budget whatsoever, what would you add/take out in the deck.

I know the Grand Architect + Painter's Servant work well together but if the only reason that Painter's Servant is included is to use Lurebound Scarecrow cant you take him out to make it more budget? Plus I'm pretty sure the "permanents of chosen color" line in Lurebound Scarecrow's counts for lands as well so that makes Painter's Servant really pointless unless you're playing against land hate.

Tribal_lord: But lands are colourless....

enpc Sorry, I just started playing MTG a while ago and I didn't know that. I looked up the rulings and yeah you're right. All lands are colorless except for Dryad Arbor.

Tribal_lord: All good, it's actually a very common thing for newer (and some older) players not to know. Thats why Painter's Servant is banned in Commander. Painter's Servant + All Is Dust is literally resets the board.

Tribal_lord Yeah the majority of people I know only really found it out when it came to a ruling we had to look up lol, which is pretty much what happened here!