3.1 - Celes Chain by user3591559

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Celes, Rune Knight to blend traditional graveyard reanimation with instant-speed blink and +1/+1 counter aggregation. The strategy uses low-cost ramp and discard outlets to stock the graveyard with game-ending threats like Archon of Cruelty, Ashen Rider, and Sepulchral Primordial. Casting Celes filters the hand and discards extra creatures, while her triggered ability buffs the entire board whenever creatures return from the graveyard. Low-cost reanimation spells cheat massive bodies onto the battlefield as early as Turn 4. Instant-speed flicker spells such as Ephemerate and Cloudshift serve a dual purpose: they protect key permanents from removal while re-triggering devastating enter-the-battlefield abilities. Asymmetric board wipes like Damning Verdict and Ruinous Ultimatum clear opposing boards without touching your counter-stacked creatures, allowing an alpha strike to close out the game across Turns 6 and 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Return
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Angel of Despair
  • 1 Angel of Glory's Rise
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashen Rider
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bitter Reunion
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Getaway Glamer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Personify
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Renegade Bull
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Static Prison
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow