New Untitled Deck by user1102084

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Golgari Voltron build designed to capitalize on Skullbriar, the Walking Grave's unique ability to retain counters across all zones except hand and library. By deploying Skullbriar on Turn 1 or 2 with haste, the deck immediately begins accumulating +1/+1 counters through combat connections. It swiftly scales into a lethal threat using potent multipliers such as Branching Evolution, Hydra's Growth, Level Up, and Corpsejack Menace, while granting permanent keyword counters (trample, flying, indestructible) via cards like Titanoth Rex, Scavenged Brawler, and Daring Fiendbonder. Skullbriar's counter-retention makes standard board wipes and single-target removal largely inefficient, as recasting the commander preserves its massive power and haste. While vulnerable to bounce, tuck, or edict effects, the deck combines explosive mana acceleration, tutors, and asymmetric sweepers like Mandate of Abaddon to sequentially eliminate opponents by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argothian Enchantress
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avoid Fate
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Daring Fiendbonder
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fully Grown
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hornbash Mentor
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mandate of Abaddon
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sarulf, Realm Eater
  • 1 Scavenged Brawler
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary