skeleton tribal by Aripash

Format: Commander

Commander: The Necrobloom

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan graveyard and landfall engine piloted by The Necrobloom. The commander turns every land in the graveyard into a dredge 2 enabler while flooding the board with Plant and Zombie tokens whenever lands enter the battlefield. The strategy combines cheap, self-recurring Skeletons like Reassembling Skeleton and Cult Conscript with powerful 'leaves the graveyard' triggers including Insidious Roots, Desecrated Tomb, Skeleton Crew, and Teval's Judgment. Deep dredge engines such as Life from the Loam and Golgari Grave-Troll fill the graveyard with flashback reanimation spells like Dread Return and Sevinne's Reclamation. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition around Turn 6 by resolving massive swarm finishers like Skeletal Swarming and Avenger of Zendikar, or by draining opponents through Syr Konrad, the Grim and Soul Enervation. While vulnerable to mass graveyard exile, its deep recursive redundancy ensures rapid recovery from conventional removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bone Dragon
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Can't Stay Away
  • 1 Chalk Outline
  • 1 Champion of Stray Souls
  • 1 Clattering Augur
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convergence of Dominion
  • 1 Corpses of the Lost
  • 1 Creeping Renaissance
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkblast
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Death Tyrant
  • 1 Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Diregraf Rebirth
  • 1 Dogged Detective
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad's Revival
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Embalmer's Tools
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formless Genesis
  • 1 Gnaw to the Bone
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Gutterbones
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Ray of Revelation
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Rot Farm Skeleton
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanitarium Skeleton
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skeletal Swarming
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Falcon, Airship Restored
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Necrobloom
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist