Scarecrows - Failed MtG Mechanics

Scarecrows were never meant to be a commander or sealed deck. Commander didnt start to get popular until right after Shadowmoor with Shards of Alara.

I feel like scarecrows not having reach by default like spiders is a crime

"Reaper King Tribal" Lmao yeah ok, I thought we were gonna go changelings

I've never seen Scarecrows before this video, but I love how creepy they are. It's sad to hear they've been abandoned. Goth girl needs her goth deck!

9:48 There is one other colored scarecrow in magic. The Portal Three Kingdoms "Straw Soldier" is blue and had gotten an errata to be a "Scarecrow Soldier" instead of just a Soldier. It is also the only non artifact scarecrow.

Whats with the lorwyn hate. Its my favorite set! It introduced so many cool inventive things. Not all of them were good, but it was uniformly enjoyable

I RAN reaper king as a commander for a year and just now learned he pumps scarecrows. Thats how irrelevant the ability is next to his god tier secondary ability. Reaper king ruined scarecrows for all of time because he’s so good that the tribe cant be good or reaper king would be unstoppable

Reaper king is the perfect encapsulation of a scarecrow. From a far he looks scary, like something that could kill you. But then you get close and realize it’s just a harmless scarecrow

Remember that things like Assemble the Legion, Avatar of Zendikar, Awakening Zone, work so well with Arcane Adaptation and Reaper King, that it's actually one of the easiest Commanders to build around.

As a person who design cube and who has studied a lot the lorwyn blocks, it's not a mistake for an archetype to be just slightly present in the pool in limited. In Lorwyn and Shadwomoore they wanted you to create decks with mixes strategies, they had cards with either multiple colors or types, and the idea was to mix multiple themes and trybes in one. Scarecrows were colorless creatures that could fit in multiple strategies, the presence of a tribal element was just because a creative player who drafted those card could try and do something. It didn't need to be strong but expressive.

Fun fact: Reaper King costs 10 mana, even though you can pay WUBRG to cast him, but if you have cards that reduce the cost of colored spells or artifact spells, you can only pay 3-4 for him. Also, if you have Vial Smasher out, you'll deal 10 damage to an opponent.

PRAYING for a new Reaper King commander for Lorwyn next year, Im so tired of my favorite tribe not being able to be play because of the only commander's power

Scarecrows were a limited tribe meant to interact with the various mechanics of their sets: -1/-1 counters and color matters using hybrid mana costs to get extra colors in play for free.

Painter's servant was one that i always wanted to include. Pila pala also. I didn't know about Scaretiller. That sounds super useful for a landfall deck.

The untap symbol make scarecrows great for infinites

It doesn't make sense to fault cards for being designed for Limited and Draft and not Commander decks that wouldn't have existed until a decade later.

I have a fun Reaper King deck on moxfield; "The Printer's Broken"... every changeling is a scarecrow you know!

Don't worry, now we have leyline of the guildpact to make all scarecrows all 5 colors.

Though considering there's going to be a new more modern horror plane visited in an upcoming set, I bet Scarecrows will be a supported type there.

Hmm, Helm of the Host and Reaper King. Might have to consider that toxic bit of fun when I want to be public enemy number one!