Skullbriar by dannoli

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Golgari Voltron strategy built around Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The primary game plan focuses on casting Skullbriar on Turn 2 and immediately applying combat pressure with haste. Over subsequent turns, the deck stacks +1/+1 counters using cards like Master Chef, Forgotten Ancient, and Thickest in the Thicket, while granting trample via Duskshell Crawler and Gnarlid Colony. Because Skullbriar retains counters across zones, it possesses built-in resilience against destruction and exile, enabling rapid recovery after commander tax. However, the deck closes games strictly through sequential single-target combat, requiring multiple turn rotations to eliminate a full table. It relies on natural card flow and cheap targeted hexproof spells like Snakeskin Veil and Ranger's Guile to protect its singular attacker against opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Beastmaster
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Duskwatch Hunter
  • 1 Elvish Rejuvenator
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Ent's Fury
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Gnarlid Colony
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Greenweaver Druid
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hunter's Edge
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Master Chef
  • 1 Moon-Vigil Adherents
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Mystic Repeal
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 Necromantic Summons
  • 2 Necrosynthesis
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Quarrel
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranger's Guile
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rise Again
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scale the Heights
  • 1 Scrapshooter
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Skullwinder
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Something Worth Saving
  • 1 Soul's Might
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Storm the Seedcore
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teyo, Diamondblade Mage
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Vat Emergence
  • 1 Wardens of the Cycle
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Windgrace's Judgment
  • 1 Winds of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery