CounterCulture by Dylar

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an aggressive Voltron strategy centered on Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The primary game plan is to deploy Skullbriar on Turn 2, attack immediately to begin accumulating +1/+1 counters, and rapidly augment it with stat multipliers and permanent keyword counters. Because Skullbriar keeps its counters as it moves between the battlefield, graveyard, and command zone, it maintains accumulated power and evasion throughout the game. The deck leverages cycling creatures like Titanoth Rex and Daring Fiendbonder to permanently grant trample and indestructible, while cards like Hydra's Growth and Corpsejack Menace accelerate its clock. Protection spells and umbra auras keep Skullbriar on the board, allowing it to eliminate opponents sequentially through lethal commander damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloated Contaminator
  • 1 Blood Curdle
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Canopy Cover
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Daring Fiendbonder
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk
  • 1 Duskfang Mentor
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolutionary Escalation
  • 1 Felling Blow
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Fully Grown
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 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 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 Ordeal of Nylea
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scavenged Brawler
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Slippery Bogbonder
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Sudden Spinnerets
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 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