New Untitled Deck (Copy) by Edes

Format: Commander

Commander: Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave is the deck's reliable centerpiece and its best source of early pressure. The plan is to cast the commander early, attack whenever possible, and exploit the fact that its +1/+1 counters remain as it moves to the graveyard or command zone. The rest of the deck supplies counter growth, trample, protection, mana, and conditional card draw. Duskshell Crawler, Ring of Kalonia, and Synchronized Charge help attacks connect, while Hydra's Growth, Level Up, Bone Sabres, Fangs of Kalonia, and Corpsejack Menace scale the commander. The deck can eventually kill through commander damage, but it usually needs several combat steps and does not have a compact combo. Its main weaknesses are limited tutoring, no stack interaction, reliance on a single commander for its fastest clock, and vulnerability to exile, bounce, sacrifice effects, and repeated board control. It is best suited to a general-power multiplayer table rather than competitive Commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Bone Sabres
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Case of the Trampled Garden
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Drannith Ruins
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Eternal Thirst
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fully Grown
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Hornbash Mentor
  • 1 Hunter's Talent
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Reborn
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lull
  • 1 Mandate of Abaddon
  • 1 Momentous Fall
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ordeal of Nylea
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ring of Kalonia
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Slippery Bogbonder
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Synchronized Charge
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Trash the Town
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Visions of Dominance
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery