Skullbriar, the Walking Grave card art

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Legendary Creature — Zombie Elemental MV 2

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What it does

Haste

Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Combos with Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Gore Vassal Infinite
    • Draw the game
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Fume Spitter Infinite
    • Draw the game
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Altar of Dementia Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mill
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Triad of Fates Intruder Alarm Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Grolnok, the Omnivore Food Chain Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Illicit Masquerade Perigee Beckoner Carrion Feeder Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2011-09-22

    The counters that remain on Skullbriar as it changes zones aren't "placed" on Skullbriar. Effects like Doubling Season's and Melira, Sylvok Outcast's won't affect those counters.

  • 2011-09-22

    Skullbriar's last ability only works if it has that ability in the zone it's moving from. For example, with Yixlid Jailer ("Cards in graveyards lose all abilities") on the battlefield, a Skullbriar with a counter on it in a graveyard loses that counter when it's put onto the battlefield. Conversely, that Skullbriar moving from the graveyard to the battlefield would retain that counter if Humility ("All creatures lose all abilities and are 1/1") were on the battlefield; if Skullbriar then left the battlefield with Humility still on the battlefield, it would lose the counter.

  • 2011-09-22

    Counters that adjust power and/or toughness affect Skullbriar's power and/or toughness in zones other than the battlefield. For example, a Skullbriar in the command zone with a +1/+1 counter on it will be 2/2.

  • 2011-09-22

    Effects that last "for as long as that creature has a [kind of] counter on it," such as Aven Mimeomancer's, stop applying to Skullbriar once it leaves the battlefield. Even though Skullbriar retains the counters, it becomes a new object with no relation to its last existence in its previous zone.

  • 2011-09-22

    If a card becomes a copy of Skullbriar, counters will remain on that card when it leaves the battlefield (unless it goes to your hand or library). Once it does so, it stops being a copy of Skullbriar, so those counters will cease to exist when that card next changes zones.

  • 2011-09-22

    Skullbriar retains all counters, not just +1/+1 counters.

  • 2011-09-22

    Skullbriar will get one +1/+1 counter each time it deals combat damage to a player (including you if its combat damage gets redirected), regardless of how much damage is dealt.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Skullbriar, the Walking Grave in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 1
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

Every version of Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Skullbriar, the Walking Grave — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.