SPOOKIE BONES

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Budget Casual Regenerate Skeleton Theme/Gimmick

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Skeleton (35)

• 1x Bone Dragon
• 1x Carrionette
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Clattering Augur
• 1x Corpses of the Lost
• 1x Death Tyrant
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Drift of the Dead
• 1x Drudge Skeletons
• 1x Drudge Spell
• 1x Emperor of Bones
• 1x Ghastly Death Tyrant
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Hunted Bonebrute
• 1x Kjeldoran Dead
• 1x Lim-Dul's High Guard
• 1x Marang River Skeleton
• 1x Marrow Bats
• 1x Moss-Pit Skeleton
• 1x Paragon of Open Graves
• 1x Persistent Specimen
• 1x Phyrexian Monitor
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Restless Dead
• 1x Rimebound Dead
• 1x Skeletal Swarming
• 1x Skeletal Vampire
• 1x Skeletal Wurm
• 1x Skeleton Scavengers
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Spawning Pool
• 1x Tenacious Dead
• 1x Underworld Sentinel
• 1x Unworthy Dead
• 1x Visage of Dread  ^Flip

Land (36)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 2x Snow-Covered Forest
• 10x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 18x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Spawning Pool
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Pump (9)

• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Death-Priest of Myrkul
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Heirloom Blade
• 1x Paragon of Open Graves
• 1x Vulshok Morningstar

Reanimate (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Underworld Sentinel

Ramp (3)

• 1x Black Mana Battery
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Skull of Ramos

Other (1)

• 1x Cryptic Gateway

SacOutlet (1)

• 1x Skull Catapult

Commander (1)

SpotRemoval (6)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Death Wind
• 1x Ghastly Death Tyrant
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Terror
• 1x Vanquish the Weak

Draw (4)

• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Underworld Connections

MassRemoval (3)

• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Withering Wisps

WinCon (2)

• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Tutor (1)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor

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Maybeboard

Other (9)

• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Casting of Bones
• 1x Casting of Bones
• 1x Grim Roustabout
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Manor Skeleton
• 1x Pack's Disdain
• 1x Skeleton Archer
• 1x Ward of Bones

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Skeletons is one of my favorite tribes in magic and I had a 60 card singleton deck for quite some time. Prime choice of cards is flavor not power. So this is really a casual EDH deck. But it is a lot a fun to pilot and the artworks are awesome. This is the actual green/black version of the deck. There is also an old mono black version with Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon as commander: SPOOKIE BONES (Old)

Commander Choice

For a skeleton Commander who is also a skeleton him/herself you don't have much choices:

• Skeleton Ship: For favor a great choice but the card is horrible and most of the skeletons do not support the mechanics of the card. You can make an interesting and fun to play deck with the ship but I myself don't find the card suited as commander for a skeleton tribal deck.
• Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon: This card cry's for a Voltron Commander deck, but for an tribal skeleton deck he suites also.
• Tinybones, Trinket Thief: Just no synergy with most skeletons.

With the printing of Skeletal Swarming I wanted to shift the deck to black/green. So I had to search flavorful commander who could also support the deck:

• Skullbriar, the Walking Grave: Great artwork but no synergy with most skeletons
• Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord: Power of most skeletons is just not hugh enough for him.
• Grist, the Hunger Tide: Awesome artwork but no.
• Vhati il-Dal: As skeletons as Druge Skeleton his ability is helpful and his artwork is ok.
• Meren of Clan Nel Toth: Recursion is always good. And with cards like Garve Pact this commander can shine.

There are many some other options but for I myself decided to use Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Skeletons

First I start with my picks for the deck

• Bone Dragon: 5/4 flying for 5 mana. This skeleton is a beast. Auto include!!!
• Carrionette: 1/1 for two mana. So far so good. The effect is nice an relevant in a lot of games.
• Champion of Stray Souls: 4/4 for six mana. Not the best option but we need stronger cards than the regular 1/1s
• Clattering Augur: Recursion is always good with an Grave Pact in the deck. Also his card draw ability is nice.
• Death Tyrant: Good stats. Evasion. Recursion. And an impressive effect. Yes please
• Dimir House Guard: 2/3 for four mana and the regenerate effect is horrible. But his transmute ability is where he shines. We can tutor for Grave Pact or Door of Destinies for example.
• Drift of the Dead: With 33 Snow-covered Swamps in the deck this card is a great defense.
• Drudge Sentinel: 2/1 for three mana. Not that good. But a skeleton that can be indestructible is good. At least better than some other skeletons ;-)
• Drudge Spell: Not really a creature but it makes Drudge Skeletons. And an really wonderful artwork.
• Drudge Skeletons: 1/1 for two mana with regeneration for one mana. Standard for skeletons an god enough for the deck.
• Flayed Nim: 2/2 for four mana and some form of evasion. Good enough for the deck.
• Gutterbones: 2/1 for one mana. Normally not relevant in commander games. But we don't have a lot of options.
• Kjeldoran Dead: 3/1 for one mana and sacrifice of a creature. Normally no problem in a skeleton deck. I like him a lot.
• Lim-Dul's High Guard: This is a classic from the old days and still a good skeleton.
• Marang River Skeleton: A clearly better Drudge Skeletons but I think I have never uses the megamorph ;-)
• Marrow Bats: 4/1 flying for five! mana. This card is bad but we don have a lot of flying skeletons. So we take the pill and move on.
• Moss-Pit Skeleton: 5/5 for 5 mana... for a skeleton not bad. You are enlisted.
• Mournwillow: 3/2 Haste for 3 mana is OK. His effect is just the icing on the skeleton-cake.
• Paragon of Open Graves: 2/2 for four mana with an lord effect and a relevant ability. Yes please your in.
• Phyrexian Monitor: 2/2 for four mana with regeneration. OK.
• Reassembling Skeleton: He/she comes back and back and back... A classic with Grave Pact and an sac-outlet. Auto Include!
• Restless Dead: Another Druge skeleton
• Rimebound Dead: With only snow-covered swamps in the deck a better Druge skeleton
• Sanitarium Skeleton: 1/1 with recursion. It's ok.
• Skeletal Vampire: 3/3 flying an two flying bats for sic mana is good. Auto include!
• Skeletal Wurm 7/6 with regeneration for eight mana. No one with any sense would play Scaled Wurm and I play this guy only because we need beaters in this deck.
• Skeleton Scavengers This is a interesting skeleton with a very nice artwork.
• Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon: The old commander of the deck and a really nasty beast. Auto include!!!
• Tenacious Dead Slightly worse than Reassembling Skeleton but with Grave Pact good enough
• Underworld Sentinel: Newest addition to the tribe. A 4/5 Skeleton for 5 mana with a relevant ability. Yes please.
• Unworthy Dead: Another Druge skeleton

Non Skeleton Creatures:

• Death Baron: This is an auto include for the deck.
• Death-Priest of Myrkul: The other lord for skeletons# An he also makes tokens. Perfect.
• Fallen Angel: This is more or less a pet card from the old days. Work's fine with Tenacious Dead and Reassembling Skeleton

Spells:

Artifacts:

• Black Mana Battery: Ramp with a gorgeous artwork. I know the card is bad, but lock again at the artwork.
• Bonesplitter: The card name matches the theme and warriors of the old days have been buried with their weapons, so this makes sense.
• Charcoal Diamond: The artwork form seventh edition is wonderful. Would be perfect if it had a black frame.
• Coat of Arms: One of the win options of these deck. And their are skulls in the artwork, perfect.
• Cryptic Gateway: From this crypt door our army will march to battle.
• Door of Destinies: Every warrior of our army has already knocked on this door and was not let in ;-)
• Heirloom Blade: You made a mistake to bury your ancestor with his sword....
• Skull Catapult: For me an auto include even if the card is bad. And our army of darkness needs siege weapons.
• Skull of Ramos: Not every skull is on top of one of our Fighters. Some have to help us to cast our army of the dead.
• Vulshok Morningstar: This is the most effective weapon against skeletons, but they don't mind using it themselves.

Enchantments:

• Animate Dead: Wonderful artwork and an really strong spell.
• Bad Moon: The card is still good for a mono black deck. By the way, the picture was taken while creating the group photo of my Army of Darkness.
• Dance of the Dead: These artwork is fantastic.
• Grave Pact: These card is so good. But not the artwork form Stronghold please Grave Pact
• Skeletal Swarming: This card alone is so much power and is our game plan: Swarm the board with skeletons.
• Underworld Connections: Home-base of our army and card draw. Nice.
• Withering Wisps: One of the reasons to play snow-covered swamps. Mass-removal with matching artwork.

Sorceries:

• Ashes to Ashes: This card is really strong in EDH and should see more play. A least in budget builds. And the artwork of the fifth edition is perfect for the deck.
• Blood for Bones: We have enough cannon fodder to return something meaningful.
• Dead of Winter: The artwork doesn't fit the theme perfectly, but the card is to good to pass away.
• Diabolic Tutor: The only other tutor with matching artwork would be Vampire tutor (EMA) but as this is an budget deck we that this one. Sadly :-(
• Disturbed Burial: The artwork is not really the hit but thematically it fits perfectly into the deck and if you give us the time the spell is really good.
• Read the Bones: Card draw with matching artwork. Yes please.
• Touch of Death: This card is really bad. But with this artwork I have to play the card.

Instants:

• Death Wind: Removal witch matching artwork. Perfect.
• Terror: Good old terror and the artwork from 10th edition is suitable.
• Skeletal Scrying: Card draw with matching artwork. Yes please.
• Putrefy: Removal with matching artwork. I'm in.
• Vanquish the Weak: Removal with matching artwork. More please.

Cards that didn't make the cut:

To expensive (money)

• Cabal Stronghold
• Cabal Coffers
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Jet Medallion
• Vampiric Tutor
• Phyrexian Tower
• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• Oversold Cemetery

Not flavorful enough

• Skullclamp: I know this card would be good in the deck. If we get a reprint with matching art the card is in.
• Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Phyrexian Arena
• Exsanguinate
• Demonic Tutor
• Dictate of Erebos
• Grave Titan
• Caged Sun
• Adaptive Automaton
• Metallic Mimic
• Skeletal Changeling
• Changeling Outcast
• Skulltap
• Urza's Incubator
• Batterskull

Not good enough

• Sanitarium Skeleton: To slow and clunky
• Skeletal Snake: 2/1 vanilla for two mana. Not good in EDH.
• Barrier of Bones: The artwork doesn't blow me away and we don't need the surveil either.
• Urborg Skeleton: Simply: NO
• Asphodel Wanderer: 3 mana to regenerate is to expensive
• Skeletal Crocodile: 5/1 vanilla in EDH. No way
• Skull Storm: This deck has not enough ramp to use this card
• Skeletal Grimace: only partially...
• Duty-Bound Dead: The only good thing about him: he would push our commander by one. This would put his clock at two moves instead of three. So maybe he still comes
• Throne of Bone: Not relevant for the deck
• Grave Exchange If it would be an instant, maybe. But as a sorcery for 6 mana, no.
• Cranial Archive: If I would ply Living Dead yes. But so it is not relevant for the deck
• Death Pits of Rath: Would be very counterproductive for the deck.

Top Ten Artworks

1. Touch of Death
2. Dance of the Dead
3. Animate Dead
4. Kjeldoran Dead
5. Skeleton Scavengers
6. Skull Catapult
7. Black Mana Battery
8. Ashes to Ashes
9. Reassembling Skeleton
10. Marang River Skeleton

Top Ranked	Achieved #20 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #9 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Casual 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	A Mysterious Creature, Bat 1/1 B, Dog 1/1 W, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C, Skeleton 1/1 B, Skeleton 1/1 B w/ Regenerate, Skeleton Pirate 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B
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