Tombstone Smash!

Commander / EDH Aggro BG (Golgari) Voltron

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Land (35)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 6x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Guildmages' Forum
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Removal (9)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Ancient Animus
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Counters (19)

• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Fungal Behemoth
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Renegade Krasis
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan *f-etch*
• 1x Ring of Kalonia
• 1x Ring of Xathrid
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x Varolz, the Scar-Striped
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Draw (10)

• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Myth Unbound
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sylvan Library

Recursion (6)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Unearth

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Ordeal of Nylea
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sol Ring

Offense (9)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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Other (11)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
• 1x Vivien Reid
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Imagine a zombie, the size of an entire graveyard, constantly mutating, growing larger and more destructive. He starts out small and unassuming, then all of a sudden he explodes in size, and despite your best efforts, you can't keep him down.

This is Skullbriar, in a nutshell.

It's a fairly straight-forward strategy: Mulligan until you have a hand that guarantees a green and a black mana available on turn two, drop Skullbriar, and start attacking.

We of course run a load of cards that put extra counters on creatures (Primarily Skullbriar). These should be plopped down as soon as possible to make sure that we can outrace the size of our opponents' blockers. It's no good if we can't attack, or Skullbriar dies as soon as he attacks, because he's not large enough.

Trample is absolutely essential, as we need to deal damage to our opponents to grow Skullbriar in the early-to-mid game. Trample also interacts with Deathtouch in an interesting way: You only need to deal one damage to a blocker to kill it, thus all other damage goes through.

Our removal is sort of sparse, relying on forcing our opponents to block our massive creatures to keep their creature counts at bay. Nevertheless, we do run a few single target removal spells and a couple of sweepers, in case of being forced to put our strategy on the back-burner. One great thing about Skullbriar is that he has haste, so wiping the board isn't as much of an imposition, as long as we have enough mana to replay him again.

If Skullbriar gets hated out early, it's not the end of the world for us either. Many of our utility creatures can pivot into a competent go-wide strategy if we can't afford to keep Skullbriar in play.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.20
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing
Folders	Currently Built