Phantom of the Opera

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Mardu reanimator deck, helmed by Celes, Rune Knight, aims to generate overwhelming card advantage and board presence through repeated flickering and reanimation loops. Celes's ETB provides a scalable loot-draw, while her second ability turns every graveyard-entering creature into a global +1/+1 counter pump. The deck leverages cheap flicker spells (Ephemerate, Cloudshift), reanimation auras (Animate Dead, Necromancy), and powerful ETB creatures (Karmic Guide, Archon of Cruelty, Sun Titan) to grind out value. Late-game, it closes through combat via Enduring Courage granting haste, Fear of Missing Out adding extra combats, and Mardu Siegebreaker generating token copies for a lethal wide swing. The plan is resilient but lacks explosive speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Collector's Cage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Guardian of Ghirapur
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Jaws, Relentless Predator
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Lorehold, the Historian
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scrollshift
  • 1 Search for Dagger
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Surly Badgersaur
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow