Skullbriar - Counters Remain by Deelaun

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Golgari Voltron strategy centered on Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The primary game plan is to deploy Skullbriar on Turn 2, leveraging its innate haste to immediately begin accumulating +1/+1 counters. Because Skullbriar retains all counters across zone changes (except hand and library), the deck builds an ever-growing threat that shrugs off traditional creature destruction. The list augments Skullbriar with counter multipliers like Ozolith, the Shattered Spire and Kami of Whispered Hopes, while granting critical keyword counters including trample, deathtouch, flying, and hexproof through pieces like Duskshell Crawler, Call of the Death-Dweller, and Slippery Bogbonder. Low-cost protection spells such as Snakeskin Veil and Feign Death shield the commander from disruption, while burst draw engines like Greater Good and Momentous Fall convert high power into fresh cards. The deck closes games by eliminating opponents sequentially through unblockable commander damage, lethal pump spells, or direct life-loss effects like Essence Harvest and Rite of Consumption.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Duneyard
• 1 Alesha's Legacy
• 1 Arachnogenesis
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Astarion's Thirst
• 1 Back for More
• 1 Badlands Revival
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Call of the Death-Dweller
• 1 Come Back Wrong
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cursed Wombat
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Duskfang Mentor
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Essence Harvest
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolutionary Leap
• 1 Feign Death
• 1 Flare of Malice
• 10 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Fractal Harness
• 1 Fully Grown
• 1 Fungal Fortitude
• 1 Gift of the Viper
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Herd Heirloom
• 1 Hornbash Mentor
• 1 Ilysian Caryatid
• 1 Increasing Savagery
• 1 Invigorating Surge
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Kodama of the West Tree
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Llanowar Reborn
• 1 Momentous Fall
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Obscuring Haze
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Poison Dart Frog
• 1 Qarsi Revenant
• 1 Ragged Veins
• 1 Ride the Shoopuf
• 1 Ring of Kalonia
• 1 Rite of Consumption
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rush of Vitality
• 1 Sage of the Fang
• 1 Scavenged Brawler
• 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1 Slippery Bogbonder
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solidarity of Heroes
• 1 Song of the Dryads
• 1 Supernatural Stamina
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Strike
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 Thundering Mightmare
• 1 Titanoth Rex
• 1 Tyrite Sanctum
• 1 Undying Malice
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Unexpected Fangs
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Vraska Joins Up
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Will of the Sultai