Skullbriar, the Walking +1+1 counter

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Casual Counters

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Creature (23)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Biogenic Ooze
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Filth
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Slitherhead
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Vigor

Artifact (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Ring of Kalonia
• 1x Ring of Xathrid
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots

Land (37)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 12x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Guildmages' Forum
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Biogenic Upgrade
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Find / Finality
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Traverse the Outlands

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Death's Presence
• 1x Feast on the Fallen
• 1x Forced Adaptation
• 1x Myth Unbound
• 1x Predatory Hunger
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients

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My first draft at a Skullbriar, the Walking Grave deck. The main theme is +1+1 counters, but with some additional synergy and minor combos with sacrificing creatures.

Didn't want to just make a normal +1+1 deck, so tried to do some stuff with sacrifice and graveyard shenanigans. Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gives us a way to sac our big boys to tank our opponent's life totals. I've had great success with Jarad's Orders to tutor Brawn to the graveyard to give all of our big boys trample. I tried to make sure there were enough redundancies in the deck to accomplish what we wanted to do, like having multiple ways to give our giant zombie trample through Brawn or Nylea, God of the Hunt . I also tried to make sure there was enough ramp and mana-fixing since I think the mana base is pretty bad, but I don't know if there is enough payoff with big cards to necessitate so much ramp. I know Skullbriar wants to go fast, and pretty much always wants to be cast on turn 2 to start accruing counters, so maybe the solution is to skew the ramp and the mana curve down and play it more as an aggro deck?

This is my first time brewing an EDH deck, or any kind of magic deck in general (I'll admit to my filthy net-decking ways lol) so any cool cards or deck building advice is appreciated, and especially advice on improving the mana base.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Ooze 2/2 G