Skullbriar 25

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Golgari Voltron strategy centered on Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The primary plan deploys Skullbriar on Turn 2, leveraging its native haste to immediately begin accumulating +1/+1 counters through combat. The 99-card deck supports this aggressive curve by layering keyword counters (such as trample from Titanoth Rex and indestructible from Daring Fiendbonder), counter amplifiers like Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution, and doubling spells such as Invigorating Surge. Because Skullbriar retains all counters across zone changes (except hand or library), removal rarely sets back its offensive power. An extensive suite of low-cost instant-speed protection spells like Snakeskin Veil and Gaea's Gift defends Skullbriar against targeted disruption. While the deck lacks tutors, stax elements, and stack interaction, its high redundancy and rapid commander recovery allow it to pressure opponents with lethal commander damage sequentially starting on Turn 5 and closing the game around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Animus
  • 1 Armillary Sphere
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beneath the Sands
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cobbled Wings
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cursed Wombat
  • 1 Daring Fiendbonder
  • 1 Duskfang Mentor
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Family's Favor
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fertilid
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Hagra Constrictor
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hornbash Mentor
  • 1 Hunger of the Howlpack
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 Nature's Way
  • 1 New Horizons
  • 1 Oblivion's Hunger
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Ordeal of Nylea
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pollenbright Druid
  • 1 Pridemalkin
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Return to Action
  • 1 Ruinous Intrusion
  • 1 Scale the Heights
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Slippery Bogbonder
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Status // Statue
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Tuskguard Captain
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unexpected Fangs
  • 1 Unholy Indenture
  • 1 Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket
  • 1 Visions of Dominance
  • 1 Void Beckoner
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Wilt
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Campus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery