Skullbriar, the Walking Grave: The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box

[TheGildedGoose]

So, it's Skullbriar. You know. Turn 2, cast Skullbriar move to combat, party time. With the introduction of ability counters in Ikoria, he got a lot of nifty new toys with which to disembowel his enemies. I've long looked for a BGx deck to jam a bunch of removal and value into and having an ever-growing threat in the command zone solves the win condition problem.

This is a rough draft, and I'm looking for feedback. Specifically, I'm worried about folding to theft and abundant removal taxing Skullbriar out of relevance. Skullbriar is my only win condition and I'm a little worried about not having a Plan B.

The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Commander:

1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Lands: 35

1 Blooming Marsh

1 Bonders' Enclave

1 Castle Locthwain

1 Cavern of Souls

1 Command Tower

1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway

8 Forest

1 High Market

1 Homeward Path

1 Llanowar Wastes

1 Necroblossom Snarl

1 Nurturing Peatland

1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers

1 Overgrown Tomb

1 Phyrexian Tower

1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse

1 Strip Mine

5 Swamp

1 Twilight Mire

1 Tyrite Sanctum

1 Undergrowth Stadium

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Woodland Cemetery

1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

What Makes the Grass Grow? BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!: 20

1 Branching Evolution

1 Canopy Cover

1 Corpsejack Menace

1 Daring Fiendbonder

1 Hardened Scales

1 Hornbash Mentor

1 Hydra's Growth

1 Key to the City

1 Necromancy

1 Necrosynthesis

1 Phyresis

1 Pir, Imaginative Rascal

1 Ring of Kalonia

1 Slippery Bogbonder

1 Solidarity of Heroes

1 Tainted Strike

1 The Ozolith

1 Titanoth Rex

1 Visions of Dominance

1 Winding Constrictor

Ramp: 5

1 Chrome Mox

1 Cultivate

1 Kodama's Reach

1 Lotus Petal

1 Sol Ring

Removal: 14

1 Ancient Animus

1 Assassin's Trophy

1 Beast Within

1 Damnation

1 Deadly Rollick

1 Heartless Act

1 Hero's Downfall

1 Infernal Grasp

1 Inscription of Abundance

1 Invigorating Surge

1 Maelstrom Pulse

1 Nature's Claim

1 Song of the Dryads

1 Toxic Deluge

Recursion: 11

1 Animate Dead

1 Bala Ged Recovery

1 Call of the Death-Dweller

1 Journey to Eternity

1 Life // Death

1 Malakir Rebirth

1 Noxious Revival

1 Reanimate

1 Regrowth

1 Unearth

1 Vigor Mortis

Tutor/Draw: 8

1 Crop Rotation

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Hunter's Insight

1 Night's Whisper

1 Read the Bones

1 Return of the Wildspeaker

1 Rishkar's Expertise

1 Vampiric Tutor

Protection: 6

1 Heroic Intervention

1 Imp's Mischief

1 Inspiring Call

1 Oblivion's Hunger

1 Undying Malice

1 Veil of Summer

Approximate Total Cost:

12/10/21 EDIT: Major overhaul of the deck as I decided to retire Kalamax (as the dino is just too busted to make for interesting games) and refocus here as my aggro deck. It's still pretty rough, but I think it's a major improvement over what it was before.