Reaper King
Legendary Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
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can be paid with any two mana or with 
. This card's mana value is 10.)
Other Scarecrow creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Scarecrow you control enters, destroy target permanent.
- CMC
- 10
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $13.02
- EDHREC rank
- #8564
Reaper King turns every Scarecrow you cast into a free Vindicate, and Wingrattle Scarecrow alone triggers it twice. The cost — five colors and a high mana investment — is real, but the payoff is a repeatable permanent-destruction engine that takes over games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Reaper King is a Commander card through and through — the five-color identity is a feature there, not a bug, since it lets you run the full suite of Scarecrow tribal support and the best removal across all colors. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never sees play; the mana cost is awkward outside of a dedicated shell, and those formats don't reward a slow tribal payoff. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Reaper King can headline a deck, though the 20-life total means the game ends before the engine fully assembles.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Reaper KingWingrattle ScarecrowMetallic Mimic
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Reaper KingRattleblaze ScarecrowMetallic Mimic
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Reaper KingWingrattle ScarecrowSolemnity
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Reaper KingRattleblaze ScarecrowSolemnity
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Reaper KingWingrattle ScarecrowMelira, Sylvok Outcast
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There's no direct budget replacement for Reaper King — the Scarecrow-triggered Vindicate effect is unique to it. If you want a five-color tribal value engine at a lower price point, Morophon, the Boundless reduces costs across any tribe and fits a similar "goodstuff tribal" shell, though it generates no removal on its own.
Price Context
Current price
$13.02 mid tier
At $13.02, Reaper King sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real purchase, cheap enough to justify in any deck built around it. It holds that price because it's the only commander that makes Scarecrow tribal viable, and that niche demand keeps supply from cratering.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.