Bramble Blast -- $40 Skullbriar Voltron

Commander / EDH Aggro BG (Golgari) Budget Counters Enchant Equip Reanimator Voltron

Optimator

Creature (22)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Deadbridge Goliath
• 1x Dreg Mangler
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Fungal Behemoth
• 1x Hunting Moa
• 1x Lawless Broker
• 1x Llanowar Dead
• 1x Paragon of Eternal Wilds
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reaper of the Wilds
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Sandsteppe Mastodon
• 1x Spike Soldier
• 1x Spike Tiller
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Varolz, the Scar-Striped
• 1x Vulturous Zombie

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Blessings of Nature
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Gaze of Granite
• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Necromantic Summons
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Vigor Mortis

Land (37)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Artifact (12)

• 1x Armory of Iroas
• 1x Chariot of Victory
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Horned Helm
• 1x Hot Soup
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x O-Naginata
• 1x Ring of Kalonia
• 1x Ring of Xathrid
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Canopy Cover
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Diabolic Servitude
• 1x Eternal Thirst
• 1x Forced Adaptation
• 1x Grim Feast
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Necrogenesis
• 1x Ordeal of Nylea
• 1x Predatory Hunger
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Rite of Passage
• 1x Shade's Form
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Instant (4)

• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Strength of the Tajuru

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This is the deck I made for my good friend and roommate for Christmas '16. The original cost displayed was indeed $40 but appreciation has driven the cost up, and reprints have driven the cost down. Cost me about $30 out-of-pocket when I built it.

Saved for posterity and inspiration. Updates are highly unlikely.

The editions for the cards are all accurate and the keen eye will notice I tried to get the most plant-y or brambly versions of cards (or at least the oldest versions of each card). For example, Rampant Growth and Golgari Signet. I also tried to get as many promo cards and rare-art versions as I could afford, such as Putrefy and Corpsejack Menace.

One may also notice a distinct lack of a certain ubiquitous mana-ramper; if my roommate likes this deck enough let him put a ring on it.

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Pretty straightforward deck: ramp, apply counters, equip, attack, reanimate, repeat.

The deck will no-doubt evolve but that's not my path. Keep in mind, this deck was a budget deck that is also from 2016. If I could do it again I would probably squeeze in another budget wrath like Crux of Fate or Deadly Cover-Up, another removal spell like Murder or Go for the Throat or Infernal Grasp, and another removal piece (like Unravel the Aether or Deglamer or Tear Asunder--at the time Beast Within was out of budget), as well as several more ramp pieces--try to get it up to eight or so. Skullbriar is cheap but gets whacked regularly. This deck was early on in my EDH career so the ratios are way off from my current sensibilities.

This deck was built well before Ikoria and its keyword counters. As I understand it, the deck's owner has indeed added things like Slippery Bogbonder and Titanoth Rex since.

Top Ranked	Achieved #46 position overall 7 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 0 Rares 36 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	+1 Budget, Commander ideas, later, Golgari EDH reference, EDH, EDH, EDH, My Decks, Voltron!, Potential Decks