{"ops":[{"insert":"Game Plan\nThe deck revolves around Reaper King's triggered ability:\n\nWhenever another Scarecrow enters the battlefield under your control, destroy target permanent.\nBecause Changelings are every creature type, they are effectively additional Scarecrows.\n\nThe ideal sequence is:\n\nRamp → Reaper King → play Changelings → destroy permanents → rebuild → overwhelm the table.\n\nA one-mana Changeling can effectively become a one-mana removal spell once Reaper King is on the battlefield.\n\nEarly Game — Build the Farm 🌾\nThe first few turns are about getting your five-color mana online.\n\nPrioritize:\n\nMana rocks\nLand ramp\nCheap Changelings\nCard draw\nTribal support\nDon't worry about triggering Reaper King immediately. Establishing your mana is more important because the commander has a demanding five-color casting cost.\n\nCards like Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Chromatic Lantern, Nature's Lore, Farseek, Cultivate, and Kodama's Reach help get the deck online.\n\nMid Game — The Scarecrows Awaken 👻\nOnce Reaper King hits the battlefield, the deck changes completely.\n\nEvery Scarecrow or Changeling becomes removal.\n\nPlay:\n\nUniversal Automaton → destroy a permanent.\n\nChangeling Outcast → destroy a permanent.\n\nGraveshifter → destroy a permanent + return a creature.\n\nMasked Vandal → destroy a permanent while providing additional utility.\n\nDon't blindly destroy lands. Save your triggers for the permanents that are actually threatening your game plan.\n\nHowever, if an opponent is heavily dependent on a particular land, mana engine, or combo piece, Reaper King can make short work of it.\n\nMaskwood Nexus 🎭\nMaskwood Nexus is one of the deck's most important support cards.\n\nIt makes your creatures every creature type, which means your non-Scarecrow creatures can become Scarecrows for Reaper King.\n\nIts token ability is also extremely useful.\n\nWith Reaper King in play:\n\nCreate a token → token is a Scarecrow → Reaper King triggers.\n\nThis effectively turns your token production into repeatable removal.\n\nGraveyard Plan ☠️\nThe graveyard is an extension of your hand.\n\nCards such as Graveshifter, Scarecrone, Victimize, and Living Death allow you to reuse your creatures and generate additional Reaper King triggers.\n\nLiving Death\nLiving Death can be one of the strongest plays in the deck.\n\nIf you've accumulated a graveyard full of Changelings and Scarecrows, Living Death brings them all back at once.\n\nThat can generate a huge number of Reaper King triggers.\n\nThe result can be:\n\nBoard wipe → mass resurrection → multiple Reaper King triggers → destroy the remaining opposing permanents → attack for lethal.\n\nSacrifice Package 💀\nSacrifice outlets give the deck another way to generate value.\n\nAshnod's Altar and Altar of Dementia allow creatures to be sacrificed for additional resources.\n\nThis works especially well with creatures that can be brought back from the graveyard.\n\nSkullclamp is another major value engine. Small creatures become cards when they die, allowing you to continually refill your hand while feeding your graveyard.\n\nChangeling Toolbox 🧟\nThe Changelings aren't just there because they're Scarecrows.\n\nDifferent Changelings provide different utility:\n\nUniversal Automaton — Cheap Reaper King trigger.\nChangeling Outcast — Cheap evasive threat.\nAmoeboid Changeling — Manipulates creature types.\nGraveshifter — Recursion.\nMasked Vandal — Artifact/enchantment interaction.\nMirror Entity — Turns your entire board into a huge Scarecrow army.\nChameleon Colossus — Large threat that remains a Changeling.\nThis makes the deck feel like a toolbox rather than simply playing the biggest possible creatures.\n\n🎃 Win Conditions\n1. Reaper King Control\nKeep casting Changelings and destroy the permanents that matter.\n\nEventually your opponents run out of resources while your board continues growing.\n\n2. Mirror Entity\nMirror Entity can turn your board into a massive army while also making your creatures Scarecrows.\n\nAfter you've cleared the way with Reaper King, one large activation can end the game.\n\n3. Living Death\nFill the graveyard, cast Living Death, bring everything back, and generate a huge wave of Reaper King triggers.\n\n4. Combat\nUltimately, the deck can simply attack.\n\nOnce Reaper King has removed blockers and problematic permanents, a large Changeling army can finish the table.\n\n🧠 Mulligan Guide\nLook for:\n\n2–4 lands\nMana acceleration\nAt least one cheap Changeling or Scarecrow\nA way to generate card advantage or additional mana\nA perfect hand doesn't need Reaper King immediately.\n\nThe most important thing is having enough mana to cast him and enough creatures to exploit him once he arrives.\n\nAvoid hands containing multiple expensive cards and insufficient mana, even if the cards look powerful.\n\n🎃 Flavor Goal\nThis deck is designed to feel like a Halloween night on a cursed farm.\n\nThe Scarecrows stand motionless in the fields until Reaper King arrives. Once the harvest begins, every new creature causes something else on the battlefield to disappear.\n"}]}