The Running Dead by user4144909

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a dedicated Skullbriar, the Walking Grave voltron deck built around one idea: make the commander enormous and end games with commander damage (or a 10-poison infect kill via Phyresis). Skullbriar's haste means he swings the turn he lands, and his signature ability - counters persisting through zones - makes him a uniquely resilient beatstick that snowballs every combat. The 99 is a dense +1/+1 counter package: five counter multipliers (Branching Evolution, Corpsejack Menace, Hardened Scales, Winding Constrictor, Loading Zone), proliferate via Evolution Sage, counter-doubling pump spells (Fangs of Kalonia, Invigorating Surge, Solidarity of Heroes), and a small equipment/aura suite for double strike and evasion. The deck has no real tutors and no infinite combos; it wins through raw combat inevitability, growing Skullbriar exponentially each turn until he one-shots each opponent in sequence.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alchemist's Assistant
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Blightbeetle
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Cankerbloom
• 1 Casualties of War
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Daring Fiendbonder
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Duskfang Mentor
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fangs of Kalonia
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Find // Finality
• 1 Fireshrieker
• 1 Forced Adaptation
• 8 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Gift of the Viper
• 1 Golgari Charm
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Golgari Signet
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Haunted Cloak
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hollowmurk Siege
• 1 Hornbash Mentor
• 1 Increasing Savagery
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Invigorating Surge
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Reborn
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Loading Zone
• 1 Maelstrom Pulse
• 1 Mask of Griselbrand
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1 Ordeal of Nylea
• 1 Phyresis
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Qarsi Revenant
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Ring of Kalonia
• 1 Ring of Xathrid
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Sixth Sense
• 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1 Snake Umbra
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solidarity of Heroes
• 1 Strength of Will
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thundering Mightmare
• 1 Titanoth Rex
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Void Beckoner
• 1 Vorrac Battlehorns
• 1 Vraska Joins Up
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Winding Constrictor
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Worn Powerstone