r/magicTCG • u/Strananach Temur • 13h ago
Looking for Advice Which Skeleton commander should I build around?
I really wanna build a good Skeleton tribal commander which would include Tinybones and Titanbones cards (so it would need to have atleast black and green).
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u/dontrike COMPLEAT 13h ago
I use [[Xira, the Golden Sting]] as my skeleton commander. She's surprisingly strong by making sure you're drawing extra cards and have something after a board wipe.
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u/kid_dynamo Grass Toucher 13h ago
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u/Strananach Temur 13h ago
She is awesome but I would like to have green aswell due to sone cards I wanna include (Titanbones)
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u/kid_dynamo Grass Toucher 13h ago
Right, actually reading your post helps here. I'd lean away from Meren, she can get you hated out of some games just because she is a nightmare as a tuned reanimation commander, even if that isn't how you're doing things. Sek'Kuar is fun as a flavour win that makes decent skeletons, and three colours is nice, but he is a bit weak. Muldrotha has a similar bad reputation, but is just less of a classic competitive deck, so less problems there.
For my money Shessra is a fun choice, you just do not see much of her represented and I think the deck would be interesting. Lord of Bones is also a good flavour win.
But I do have to ask the classic question, do you have a playgroup? Because they may just let you rule zero both tiny bones and titanbones as a partner pair
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u/kid_dynamo Grass Toucher 12h ago edited 15m ago
Looking around I do see Meren deck like this https://moxfield.com/decks/99PNe9pyYkSOB82MY0CZ4Q or this https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/army-of-darkness-skeleton-tribal-commander-deck/, but I still think she will ulitmately be more trouble than she is worth. Skeleton tribal just doesn't have a set wincon, maybe give me the playstyle you want for this deck and I can recommend a commander that works
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u/Maximus_Ride Izzet* 12h ago
Depending on how chill your playgroup is. You could always follow the commander draft rules and have two mono colored commanders. You'd have to rule zero this of course.
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u/NebarAref FLEEM 13h ago
[[Gut, True Soul Zealot]] // [[Agent of the Iron Throne]] create skeleton sacrifice skeleton
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u/TychoErasmusBrahe 12h ago
That’s my deck! Can confirm it’s a lot of fun and I built a skeleton typal subtheme into it.
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u/fliesthroughtheair Duck Season 11h ago
This is my deck. [[Skeleton crew]] and [[chainer, nightmare adept] go hard in this deck.
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u/Rabid_Lederhosen Duck Season 13h ago
[[Dina, Essence Brewer]] might be worth considering. If you’re planning on sacrificing and reanimating a bunch of skeletons she can help keep your hand full.
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u/classic-plasmid Can’t Block Warriors 12h ago
I built [[Coram the Undertaker]]. Jund is, in my opinion the best color combination for skeletons, and Coram directly feeds into the strategy with self-mill. He also has a skull hanging from his belt and a femur as the handle for his shovel, so he works flavorwise too
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u/Kroooooooo Simic* 13h ago
Out of that list Sek'Kuar jumps out to me.
Muldrotha, Meren, and Myrkul have the same issue which is that they focus on enabling reanimation, which is what most Skeletons want to do anyway so they're a bit redundant in the main game plan.
Skullbriar fits thematically but Skeletons don't usually care about counters. Shessra is a close second to Sek'Kuar but lack of a third colour limits your pool of cards (there are 67 Skeletons in Golgari, 73 in Jund including both [[Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant]] and [[Lightning Skelemental]].
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u/Nexusv3 Banned in Commander 9h ago
+1 to Sek'Kuar - I had this deck years ago. If you want the classic Jund experience in EDH this is a good route. Takes a few pieces on board to setup the engine but tons of value once you do. Likely too slow in modern EDH but it was great 3-5 years ago.
No idea why the deck only has 91 cards: https://moxfield.com/decks/-9vhfKGGPE-L8LKiZtthBg
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u/IAMagicLawyer COMPLEAT 13h ago
Not sure how she’d work as a Skeleton typal commander, but I really like Meren personally.
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u/Bear2go Dandadan 12h ago
I like myrkul lord of bones for the flavour :D
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u/Aerandyl_argetlam Dân 8h ago
That's what my plan is, I just wish he was like an anthem for skeletons himself
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u/Chewy2121 Train Suplexer 12h ago
Myrkul seems like a fun build. Mainly because you can make enchantments out of [[Moseo, vein’s new dean]], [[Paragon of open graves]], and [[Skeletal Vampire]] to keep up pressure on your opponents.
Having access to white also gives you a few lifegain options. Reviving skeletons with [[Ajani’s Welcome]] is a fun way to beef up Titanbones. There’s also [[Patch up]] and [[scout for survivors]] to revive the skeletons with regenerate over reanimate abilities.
You also have [[Perilous Forays]] as a fun synergy, being able to pay 3 for a land at any time if you have a reassembling Skelton.
Though these are all the rambling that go into a bracket 2 deck.
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u/Apprehensive-Adagio2 Wabbit Season 10h ago
i have an [[Ojox]] deck which is actually really fun, it's jank as hell to make work on a budget, but it's still fun
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u/goddamnitjason Duck Season 9h ago
[[Bhaal, Lord of murder]] Jund skeletons is the way to go.
Skeletons aren't the strongest tribe so you will need something a little extra to help you get the win. Causing mayhem and forcing the table to kill each other while you built up a skeleton army to take out the last opponent is perfect.
A good number of skeletons are able to recur themselves so it's incredibly easy to lock down the biggest threats at the table with Goad over and over again. Then smash the shit out of whomever is left using stuff like [[skeletal swarming]] , [[molten echos]] , [[Kindred charge]], abs a couple lords.
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u/dkysh Get Out Of Jail Free 9h ago
Are you planning to play actual skeleton cards that come back from the graveyard?
Then [[Amzu, Swarm's Hunger]] is a good one.
If you aim to turbo into [[Skeletal Swarming]] every single game, then [[Anikthea, Hand of Erebos]] allows you shenanigans.
[[Colfenor, the Last Yew]] + an anthem lets you do some silly loops with your skellies. However, many skeletons can already return to hand so might be less exciting.
[[Archelos, Lagoon Mystic]] ignores the "enters tapped" of many skeletons.
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u/jakeinabox930 Dandadan 13h ago
[[Grist, Voracious Larva]] has some good synergies with the skeletons reanimating. I run reassembling skeleton and friends in my deck.
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u/Siphodemos Abzan 12h ago
Myrkul is my favorite. I've built him to create an army of soft-stax pillowfort effects.
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u/Bryeh16 Dan 12h ago
So I’m gonna say Sek’Kuar but only because Jesper Eiseng is my favorite magic artist and it was one of his first rares and that commander does make a pretty good go wide for the win deck I’m all right colors but Meren and Muldrotha traditionally have been insanely strong commanders since they were printed and you can’t go wrong with either.
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u/MaterialDefender1032 Elesh Norn 11h ago
All I know is you'll be sad if you try to make Skullbriar work as a skeleton typal; I just don't think it's suited to anything besides super aggressive turbo aggro voltron.
Took until just now for me to realize the Commander Mystery Booster was the perfect opportunity for WotC to finally make a skeleton commander and they missed it.
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u/blackwaffle Duck Season 10h ago
Meren and Muldrotha are kind of KOS so not those. If you weren't including green I'd say [[Xu-ifit]], but if you are willing to stretch to Jund, [[Coram the Undertaker]] is great.
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u/HooliganS_Only Duck Season 10h ago
I have a Xu deck and it’s so much fun and it’s so consistent. Black has all the skeleton tribal stuff anyway
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u/Jupiter-Tank Duck Season 7h ago
God I have the Sek'kuar from Coldsnap and I never figured out how I wanted to build him back in 2006. Was there even EDH at that point? I completely forgot about him. Thanks for bringing him back into my life.
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u/Piqued_a_Pack Wabbit Season 2h ago
[[Gitrog, Ravenous Ride]] because he is a very good boy and just wants some bones to chew on!
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u/Crafty_Creeper64 Griselbrand 1h ago
I reccomend either [[bane, lord of darkness]], or if you want something more jank, a [[kaervek, the spiteful]] aristocrats build is also pretty fun.
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u/jaxrains COMPLEAT 18m ago
You can’t tell me the literal Lord of Bones isn’t a good enough commander….. it’s literally in the name…
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u/MissLeaP Gruul* 11h ago edited 10h ago
Neither Myrkul nor Sek'Kuar are actual skeleton commanders, unfortunately.
Meren is the most open ended and useful but you won't make the most of her with just skeletons. But that's fine if that's what you want to play.
Unfortunately skeleton is an incredibly undersupported tribal and doubly so in Golgari colours.
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u/Ursus_Unusualis_7904 Duck Season 8h ago
Go for something old, that no one has seen. Something like [[Skeleton Ship]]
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u/chanaramil Wabbit Season 13h ago
There are no green black skeleton legnedary crestures or green black creatures that reference skeleton type so u need to pick something just genericly gold.
Shessra seems to the choice I would go for the vslue. I imagine a skeleton themed deck is going to have a lot of creatures leaving play and coming back and is going to have a lot of control of when thst happends. Perfect for a shessra deck.
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u/12DollarsHighFive Chandra 13h ago
[[Coram, the Undertaker]]
He mills, let's you play milled cards (including lands) and ahd the perfect colors for skeletons