Converting death triggers into massive creature scaling and end-step board-wide burn execution defines high-octane Jund aggression. On Moxfield’s high-power charts, The Reaper, King No More from Aetherdrift stands out as a lethal commander for sacrifice strategies, +1/+1 counter synergy, and explosive group-slug finishes.
As a 5/5 Skeleton Warrior legend with trample and haste for five mana (), The Reaper grows whenever another creature dies by allowing you to pay 1 life to place a +1/+1 counter on him. During your end step, if The Reaper’s power is 8 or greater, you can sacrifice him to deal damage equal to his power directly to each opponent. Packed with token fodder, board wipes, and damage amplifiers, The Reaper quickly swells to lethal power thresholds and incinerates the entire table.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier list, detailing how to trigger mass creature deaths, pump your commander, and execute game-ending end-step burns.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with The Reaper, King No More requires fast Jund mana dorks, sacrifice outlets, token generators, and counter doublers.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Deploy cheap ramp like Birds of Paradise and sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Cast The Reaper () with haste. Sacrifice disposable creature tokens or wipe small boards to pump his power past 8 using Hardened Scales or Ozolith, the Shattered Spire.
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Late Game (Turns 5+): Amplify end-step burn damage using Torbran, Thane of Red Fell or Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, or loop The Reaper from the graveyard with Reanimate to repeat the sacrifice burn on consecutive turns.
2. Moxfield Highlights: Jund Sacrifice & Direct Damage
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize The Reaper by balancing death triggers with explosive power amplification.
Hardened Scales / Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
Counter amplification. Doubling or increasing +1/+1 counter placement allows The Reaper to hit the required 8 power threshold with only 2 or 3 creature deaths.
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus / Fiendish Duo
Damage multiplication. Doubling The Reaper’s end-step sacrifice trigger turns an 8-power sacrifice into 16 direct damage to every opponent.
Mayhem Devil / Blood Artist
Aristocrat damage triggers. Pinging opponents and draining life whenever creatures or tokens are sacrificed offsets the 1 life payment required to grow your commander.
Reanimate / Animate Dead
Recursion loops. Bringing The Reaper back from the graveyard immediately after sacrificing him for his end-step burn lets you repeat the cycle on the next turn cycle.
3. Copy & Paste The Reaper, King No More 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 The Reaper, King No More
1 Animate Dead
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Arcane Signet
1 Arid Mesa
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Beast Within
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Blood Crypt
1 Blood Artist
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Chaos Warp
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Culling the Weak
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Deadly Rollick
1 Deflecting Swat
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dockside Extortionist
1 Doubling Season
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Eldritch Evolution
1 Entomb
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fiendish Duo
1 Finale of Devastation
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Great Henge
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Hardened Scales
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ignoble Hierarch
1 Innkeeper's Talent
1 Jeska's Will
1 Jeweled Lotus
1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Confluence
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Amber
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Opal
1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Polluted Delta
1 Professional Face-Breaker
1 Pyroblast
1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Reanimate
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Rhythm of the Wild
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scragland
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
1 Stomping Ground
1 Taiga
1 Talisman of Impulse
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Talisman of Resilience
1 The Ozolith
1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Undergrowth Stadium
1 Underworld Breach
1 Urza's Saga
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Veil of Summer
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Viscera Seer
1 Volcanic Island
1 Walking Ballista
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
5 Forest
4 Mountain
4 Swamp
Summary: Claim the Throne with Death and Fire
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize The Reaper, King No More because he merges fast sacrifice triggers with high-impact, table-wide direct damage. By leveraging death triggers and counter multipliers, The Reaper rapidly scales into a game-ending end-step burn engine. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, sacrifice your way to victory, and dominate your next Commander pod.
