MaxoBug Wow that's dumb, I hate it when people do that, like they put no work into something and claim it as their own. I mean, even if they just said "It's a scarecrow deck", but they actually said that they put "hard work" into it... Anyways, it's awesome that most of the rest of the community is so accepting, it makes it a lot easier to get constructive suggestions!

Strionic Resonator might be a fun card with this deck. You can double up on Vindicate s with your Reaper King out, choose two colors with things like Painter's Servant and Lurebound Scarecrow and... that's about it.

but it might be a fun 1 of that you can throw extra Fabricate s at.

Oh, another thing that I think you may want to consider: Since you have so much ability to change the colour of your creatures (which would make Grand Architect work well), if you do decide to put in Grand Architect , you should also look into adding Pili-Pala as the Architect's effect lets Pili-Pala tap for 2 mana, then pay that 2 to untap for 1 mana of any colour. This is pretty insane as it lets you do some infinite-mana combos

Grand Architect and Pili-Pala is an awesome combo that I would love to add. How do I do it, though, is a good question.

And yes poorpinkus, It's a good community indeed. In fact, more comfortable than my local one so far. :-/

Yeah true, that is quite a few slots to take up, I may switch the Pili-Pala to my sideboard to avoid being a Johnny, Combo Player to add in some more control. Just from my experience playtesting I'm not sure if Grim Poppet is entirely necessary, but I can definitely see its use. Would it be a good idea to sideboard and switch to something with persist or the like? I'm not sure entirely but you could always try it

how about adaptive autonomoton over Watchwing Scarecrow main?

I do agree that Watchwing Scarecrow seems a bit weak in this kind of deck but I disagree about Adaptive Automaton, it's not as good as it seems from my experience. I have noticed that persist is very valuable in this kind of deck. If you can find some, I'd suggest replacing the watchwing with some Wingrattle Scarecrows

Watchwing Scarecrow was there as a defensive flying option, useful even without the king. Can be activated either with Painter's Servant, or Scuttlemutt. But I think that it's up to you, they can be switched.

Regarding the Wingrattle Scarecrow I have many, (I have every type of scarecrow, as a collection, LOL), and sure I can try it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sweet deck! I've only just come across Scarecrow cards and looking at them couldn't work out they'd fit together in a deck but this looks fun. How does it play?

You made scarecrow actually... playable! You sir, are a genius!

Thanks! You don't know how awesome is to read that guys! :)

I only see colorless, blue, Academy Ruins and Reaper King. If your main strategy is to revive the Reaper King, why not simply make it mono blue with white splash for Academy Ruins? You could use Temple of Enlightenment and maybe some other blue white lands, but mostly islands which have the distinct advantage of coming in untapped or something like Halimar Depths which has a useful blue effect? (Personally, I'd suggest just islands.). Arcane Sanctum and Transguild Promenade in particular seem questionable.

Really cool deck! +1

You may be interested to know, this has another, lesser known, format legality: bad tribal. The rules are as follows (I have them in my notes and I copy & paste them because I hate typing all that...lol.)

Any creature type in Magic outside of a select few are eligible to be used (more on that later). You build a (minimum) 60 card deck (no sideboards are used) that has at least 25 creatures from the chosen Tribe. Everything else in the deck has to follow the current Modern format rules (including Banned List), but your tribe's creatures can go back to Alpha, if you want to, as any sets are allowed, including special sets like dual decks & commander! (keep in mind that OTHER creatures in your deck that aren't related to your tribe have to be Modern legal).

Now, for the Banned Tribes List:

(some are color-specific, for example, you can't use BLUE Wizards, but any other color Wizards are fine): Beasts, White Clerics, Elemental, Green Elves, Blue Faeries, Zombies, Red Goblins, Merfolk, Slivers, Soldiers, Black Vampires, and Blue Wizards. No creatures from these tribes can be used in this format. Note that Shapeshifters that have the "Changeling" keyword ability are exempted from this rule and may be used to represent any tribe (they'll definitely help you in a Kobold deck!)

Also, anything after the hyphen on a creature card (example: "Creature- Human Wizard" (Xathrid Necromancer.)) is it's creature type! I overheard some people at FNM saying Obelisk of Urd wouldn't work with warriors, and while I've never heard this anywhere else I'll clarify: creature type does include subtype!

Thank you so much! As you supposed, I had no idea that format existed. Good to know!Then, regarding the color of the deck, it is, practically blue. The multicolored lands, are there, or where there in the beginning for two reasons: If you are not able to revive the king, you never got the Scarecrone, or you did but something happened to it/them, You may want to play the Reaper King for cheap, using the multi colored lands and/or Scuttlemutt. The second reason, and one that made stronger first, was to pay for cards from other colors that where on the deck on it's inception. So yeah, maybe just the first reason alone is kinda weak.

And also, why should I need white splash for Academy Ruins? Didn't get that.

I will take that into consideration, but for the moment I will stick with the colored cards for the reason listed, plus, so far I haven't had any problem with them. I can always make the changes later though. :)Thanks again, and for the +1 as well!

You're welcome! For some reason I thought academy ruins was "1WU,: etc...". I was wrong.

Urza's Incubator?

It's not modern legal as far as I know. That's why I added Semblance Anvil trying to do closely the same. You have to exile, but has other uses as well. If playing just casual it's a good substitute of course

I just found this great thread while doing research for a Scarecrow Deck, but it seems, it is still active.When concentrating on Vindicate + Blink, couldn't Blade Splicer be worth considering? Removal + 3/3 first strike creature. But maybe to expensive to play? Flamewright, Gemini Engine, Golem Foundry look OK, too.When playing removals, why not combine them with another removal with Gild? Or another removal every round with Goblin Kaboomist. As you may already guess ... i like tokens ;)

Of course the tribal character would be lost with my suggested creatures. So maybe nothing for your deck, just for the general strategy.(Sry for the double post, is there no way to edit comments?)

I'm very sorry, somehow all the time I thought of Reaper King's Vindicate as a Artifact triggered ability, not Scarecrows. Ignore my entire post :D

AN artifact

Nice deck, love what you did with it! +1 I made a casual scarecrow deck with mercenaries; The mercenaries of the Reaper King Pt 2

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!