Skullbriar by sub780lime

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari +1/+1 counters Voltron strategy centered on Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The primary game plan is to cast Skullbriar as early as turn 2, leverage its haste to begin growing it immediately, and then supercharge it with counter-doubling effects like Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, and Corpsejack Menace. Skullbriar's unique ability to retain counters through death, exile, and graveyard zones makes it exceptionally resilient to most removal. The deck complements this with a dense suite of protection spells and trample enablers, aiming to close out the game via 21 commander damage. Secondary threats such as Kalonian Hydra and Vastwood Hydra provide additional pressure, but the deck's engine is built entirely around making Skullbriar an unstoppable beater.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Animus
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Bane of Progress
• 1 Blighted Woodland
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Damnable Pact
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Dig Up
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Duskfang Mentor
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 3 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Fully Grown
• 1 Gaea's Gift
• 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1 Gaze of Granite
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hydra's Growth
• 1 Increasing Savagery
• 1 Infuse with Vitality
• 1 Inscription of Abundance
• 1 Invigorating Surge
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Leyline Prowler
• 1 Llanowar Reborn
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Managorger Hydra
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Obscuring Haze
• 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Rancor
• 1 Retreat to Kazandu
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Ring of Kalonia
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Ruinous Intrusion
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Sheltering Word
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1 Slippery Bogbonder
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul's Majesty
• 1 Soul's Might
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1 Sylvan Scrying
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Titanoth Rex
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Tyrite Sanctum
• 1 Tyvar's Stand
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Unspeakable Symbol
• 1 Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket
• 1 Vastwood Hydra
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Void Beckoner
• 1 War Room
• 1 Winding Constrictor
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Witherbloom Campus
• 1 Woodland Chasm
• 1 Wren's Run Hydra