skully by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a focused +1/+1 counters Voltron deck helmed by Skullbriar, the Walking Grave. The plan is to cast Skullbriar early on two mana, leverage his haste to attack immediately, and grow him with +1/+1 counters every turn until he deals lethal commander damage. The deck runs over twenty cards that put counters on creatures - cycling creatures like Agonasaur Rex and Titanoth Rex, pump instants like Invigorating Surge and Gift of the Viper, and enchantments like Fight Rigging and Innkeeper's Talent - backed by four counter doublers (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Corpsejack Menace, and Innkeeper's Talent's level 3). Skullbriar's unique zone-persistence ability means counters survive death, exile, and the command zone, making him exceptionally hard to shut down permanently. Secondary paths include big beaters like Necropolis Regent and Titanoth Rex, plus a surprise Tainted Strike poison kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Agonasaur Rex
• 1 Airtight Alibi
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Audacity
• 1 Back for More
• 1 Bannerhide Krushok
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Blood Curdle
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Bushwhack
• 1 Call of the Death-Dweller
• 1 Cankerbloom
• 1 Champion's Helm
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Daring Fiendbonder
• 1 Darkmoss Bridge
• 1 Devoted Druid
• 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
• 1 Duskfang Mentor
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expanding Ooze
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 1 Fight Rigging
• 1 Find // Finality
• 1 Flare of Cultivation
• 9 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Fowl Strike
• 1 Gift of the Viper
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hidden Grotto
• 1 Hidden Necropolis
• 1 Hidden Nursery
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 1 Invigorating Surge
• 1 Jund Panorama
• 1 Live or Die
• 1 Lively Dirge
• 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
• 1 Necromantic Selection
• 1 Necropolis Regent
• 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
• 1 Oblivion's Hunger
• 1 Predator Ooze
• 1 Pridemalkin
• 1 Professor's Warning
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shoot the Sheriff
• 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1 Snake Umbra
• 1 Stitch Together
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Strike
• 1 Talisman of Resilience
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Temperamental Oozewagg
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Terrain Generator
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 Thundering Mightmare
• 1 Titanoth Rex
• 1 Trailblazer's Boots
• 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Valgavoth's Faithful
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vigor Mortis
• 1 Void Beckoner
• 1 Vorrac Battlehorns
• 1 Warden of the Grove
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Wither and Bloom