Sek'Kaur, Deathkeeper by blackcry

Format: Commander

Commander: Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Jund skeleton-tribal attrition deck built almost entirely around the graveyard. Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper is the payoff that converts every nontoken death into a hasty 3/1 Graveborn, which pairs naturally with a roster of self-recursing skeletons - Reassembling Skeleton, Tenacious Dead, Gutterbones, Forsaken Miner - and with the Grave Pact/Dictate of Erebos sacrifice engine to choke opposing boards. The deck wins the long game: Syr Konrad, the Grim and Zulaport Cutthroat bleed the table as creatures cycle through the bin, Skeletal Swarming turns a skeleton horde into a trampling army, Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant rebuilds the board from the graveyard, and Triumph of the Hordes converts a wide board into a one-shot infect kill. The commander is an amplifier rather than a required engine - the tribal and recursion plan lives in the 99, so the deck keeps functioning under commander hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Dragon
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Champion of Stray Souls
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clattering Augur
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpses of the Lost
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Death Tyrant
  • 1 Death-Priest of Myrkul
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gut, True Soul Zealot
  • 1 Gutterbones
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Obelisk of Urd
  • 1 Paragon of Open Graves
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanitarium Skeleton
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
  • 1 Skeletal Swarming
  • 1 Skeletal Vampire
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tenacious Dead
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underworld Sentinel
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat