Skullwinder
Creature — Snake · 
Skullwinder is part of 171 combos legal in Commander. Often combined with Ghostly Flicker and Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward.
Skullwinder
Creature — Snake
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.
- Mana value
- 3
- Power/Toughness
- 1/3
- Keywords
- Deathtouch
- Color identity
Frequently combined with
The cards that most often join Skullwinder in its 100 most popular combos.
Roles in combos
Skullwinder can stand in for these generic cards, so it also fits the combos that require them.
What Skullwinder provides to the combos it is part of.
- Creature with ETB: "Return card from GY to hand"
Combos with Skullwinder
171 combos legal in Commander.
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Doppelgang
Skullwinder
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite copies of all permanents
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Ghostly Flicker
Peregrine Drake
Skullwinder
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Displace
Skullwinder
Peregrine Drake
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Illusionist's Stratagem
Peregrine Drake
Skullwinder
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite card draw
Infinite draw triggers
Near-infinite creature LTB
Near-infinite blinking
Near-infinite landfall triggers
Near-infinite magecraft triggers
Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
Near-infinite storm count
Near-infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: B, G
Cards in combo:
Rise of the Dark Realms
Phyrexian Altar
Skullwinder
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite colored mana
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Lonis, Cryptozoologist
Academy Manufactor
Skullwinder
Essence Flux
Results in combo:
Infinite artifact tokens
Infinite Clue tokens
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite Food tokens
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite storm count
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Skullwinder
Cloudshift
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, W, U
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Skullwinder
Ghostly Flicker
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, W, U
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Skullwinder
Momentary Blink
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, U, R
Cards in combo:
Storm-Kiln Artist
Skullwinder
Essence Flux
Results in combo:
Infinite artifact ETB
Infinite artifact LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite storm count
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: B, G
Cards in combo:
Songs of the Damned
Chthonian Nightmare
Skullwinder
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite black mana
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: B, G
Cards in combo:
Kaya's Ghostform
Phyrexian Altar
Skullwinder
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite storm count
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Skullwinder
Eternal Witness
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, W, U
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Skullwinder
Displace
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Displace
Skullwinder
Great Whale
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Displace
Skullwinder
Palinchron
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Infinite untap of lands you control
Color Identity: G, W, U
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Skullwinder
Essence Flux
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, W
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Skullwinder
Flicker of Fate
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Infinite magecraft triggers
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Turnabout
Ghostly Flicker
Skullwinder
Timeless Witness
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite untap of permanents you control
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite storm count
Infinite magecraft triggers
Infinite blinking
Infinite landfall triggers
Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
Color Identity: G, U
Cards in combo:
Dour Port-Mage
Skullwinder
Time Warp
+1 other prerequisite
Results in combo:
Infinite turns
