Mardu Gravestorm by chimiburg

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Celes, Rune Knight leads a Mardu reanimator deck that uses self-mill, discard outlets, and targeted reanimation to cheat out large threats ahead of curve. The commander both fills the graveyard and refills your hand, while her second trigger turns recursion into a global +1/+1 anthem. Primary wins are combat with evasive or hasted reanimated threats, mass reanimation effects like Living Death, and value loops through repeated graveyard recursion. The deck is highly dependent on Celes to keep fuel flowing, but it can still function if she is removed, relying on spells like Lively Dirge and Faithless Looting.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Angel of Serenity
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Persist
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Raffine's Informant
  • 1 Raffine's Silencer
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Red Room Recruit
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine