skully boi by Dylar

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Golgari Voltron list commanded by Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The primary game plan revolves around casting Skullbriar on Turn 2 and immediately leveraging its innate haste to accumulate +1/+1 counters. The deck rapidly scales Skullbriar's power through counter multipliers like Hardened Scales, Hydra's Growth, and Corpsejack Menace, while permanently granting critical keywords such as trample, deathtouch, lifelink, and hexproof via cycling creatures like Titanoth Rex and specialists like Slippery Bogbonder. Because counters persist on Skullbriar across zone transitions to the graveyard or command zone, the deck exhibits exceptional resilience against standard destroy and exile removal. Lethal commander damage or sudden infect bursts from Tainted Strike and Phyresis allow the deck to eliminate opponents one by one starting around Turn 4, closing the game by Turn 6. While vulnerable to bounce spells that reset counters, redundant protection and efficient interaction make it a persistent combat threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avoid Fate
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloated Contaminator
  • 1 Blood Curdle
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Canopy Cover
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Duskfang Mentor
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolutionary Escalation
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Felling Blow
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Fully Grown
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lion Umbra
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
  • 1 Mirri's Guile
  • 1 Myth Unbound
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scavenged Brawler
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Slippery Bogbonder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Sudden Spinnerets
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thundering Mightmare
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Unexpected Fangs
  • 1 Vines of Vastwood
  • 1 Void Beckoner
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Well Rested
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Woodland Chasm