Celes B4 V2 by user4754142

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Mardu reanimator and aristocrats combo engine commanded by Celes, Rune Knight. Celes serves as both an efficient hand-sculpting engine and a combo enabler: whenever a creature enters from the graveyard, Celes places a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. This immediately cancels the -1/-1 counter from the Persist mechanic on creatures like Murderous Redcap, Putrid Goblin, and Lesser Masticore. Combined with free sacrifice outlets like Goblin Bombardment, Carrion Feeder, Blasting Station, or Ashnod's Altar, this produces infinite sacrifice, death, and enter-the-battlefield triggers that deal lethal direct damage or drain the table in a single turn. Backed by secondary win conditions such as Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, heavy reanimation packages, and versatile Mardu spot removal, the deck executes a fast, resilient clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bloodthrone Vampire
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Nahiri's Resolve
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat