Suplex the Train by irisible

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Mardu Aristocrats deck is led by Celes, Rune Knight, leveraging her unique counter-canceling trigger to power infinite persist loops. When a creature returns from the graveyard via persist with a -1/-1 counter, Celes triggers and places a +1/+1 counter on all creatures you control. By state-based actions, the +1/+1 counter and -1/-1 counter negate each other, leaving the persist creature free to be sacrificed indefinitely. Supported by a robust suite of redundant persist creatures like Putrid Goblin and Murderous Redcap, along with free sacrifice outlets including Goblin Bombardment, Altar of Dementia, and Phyrexian Altar, the deck reliably presents a lethal same-turn win around Turn 5. Tutors like Imperial Recruiter, Buried Alive, and Entomb smooth out variance, while cheap reanimation spells offer high engine resilience. Though weak to continuous graveyard exile and lacking stack countermagic, its compact execution and high redundancy make it a formidable combo-reanimator threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bishop of Rebirth
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Cauldron Haze
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coin of Fate
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Mortify
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Obstinate Gargoyle
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Restless Apparition
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Warren Soultrader