MTG Salvation

Hi I would like some help with my Reaper king scarecrow/changeling tribal deck.
The main issue I have with the deck is it seems rather slow and unless I manage to draw into one of the draw spells early I seem to loose all momentum. I struggle a lot early game especially against fast decks such as one deck in my meta which runs Nahiri as its commander and usually will beat me in a one-on-one game before I have a chance to do anything. Another deck in my Meta is Mayael the Anima and I struggle mid-late game against this deck when it seems to just flood the board with huge creatures.

Getting triggers off on Reaper King is also a thing that I would like help with, I can only ever make a big impact with the reaper king triggers if I manage to play a Rite of Replication or Genesis Wave so I was wondering if there were any other options to help with this.

So overall I need some help controlling the early game and then some way to make more of an impact with reaper king. Also when I don't have reaper king in play I feel the rest of the deck is rather weak.

If anyone could help me fix my deck that would be a big help.
Thanks

What you need to understand about your deck is that it's not only a really slow combo deck, but it's also a deck that is very dependent on your general. There's a number of ways you can improve this:

Lords: You have a bunch of changelings, which will all work with all the lords in the game! Sea Gate Loremaster, Gilt-Leaf Archdruid, Supreme Inquisitor, Lord of the Unreal, Shifting Sliver, etc.
Blink: Mass blink cards are cheap ways to trigger the combo with Reaper King. Planar Guide, Legion's Initiative, Equilibrium, Parallax Wave, Cloudstone Curio, etc.
Reanimation: An alternative to blink is reanimation. I don't build these kinds of decks so I don't have suggestions
Protection: As your deck is so centered on Reaper King, you need to make sure he both gets out and stays out. Delay, Voidslime, Perplex, Asceticism, Swiftfoot Boots, etc.
Mana Acceleration: Especially as it looks like you don't want to use expensive lands, people would scream for you to add more ramp to your deck. This is an easy way to improve the deck without removing most of your creatures. You've got some cheap accel in Explosive Vegetation etc. Mana rocks are the other way to get you more mana (e.g. Coalition Relic) that you can add more of. People will tell you that you need more land in your deck, and I agree in this case as you don't have much card draw in your deck.
Card Quality: I would argue only one of the creatures in your deck is any good on its own (Mirror Entity), everything else is just there to slowly combo with Reaper King. To combat this, you can: add creature buff cards to the deck (e.g. Collective Blessing), run creature tutors (e.g. Fauna Shaman), add lords (see above), add into-play abilities (e.g. Yisan, the Wanderer Bard), or simply replace them.

For improving the early game, it depends on what your opponents are using. If they are using creatures board wipes always help (and are especially good if your creatures are in exile from a blink). There are some one-sided tempo cards that can be very strong (Profaner of the Dead, Cyclonic Rift, etc.).
If you are losing to spells then that gives you even more reasons to run counterspells (as they also make sure your general gets out and stays alive). Extraction cards also can blow opponents out (Praetor's Grasp, Jester's Cap).


I've got a Reaper King deck that has been my favorite for a long time. I first brainstormed it as a changeling deck like yours, but I changed it to a 5-color blink deck that only uses Reaper King to combo with Conspiracy/Rite of Replication if the card happens top show up. Cheers.

Thanks for the ideas
I'm liking the idea of the adding lords and the protection so think i'll give it a go I already have Swiftfoot Boots and Whispersilk Cloak so they will get added and I'll look into getting more counter spell in there