New Untitled Deck

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Celes, Rune Knight as a commander-centric engine that transforms standard persist creatures into game-winning infinite loops. Whenever a persist creature dies and returns with a -1/-1 counter, Celes triggers on its entry from the graveyard to place a +1/+1 counter on all your creatures. State-based actions immediately cancel both counters, allowing the persist creature to be sacrificed indefinitely to free outlets like Goblin Bombardment, Altar of Dementia, Phyrexian Altar, or Viscera Seer. Backed by a dense package of five persist creatures, six sacrifice outlets, and top-tier tutors such as Entomb, Buried Alive, and Demonic Tutor, the deck reliably assembles its primary win condition by Turn 4. Proactive protection spells including Grand Abolisher, Voice of Victory, and Silence shield the critical turn against opposing disruption. If Celes is suppressed, the deck seamlessly transitions into a potent reanimator strategy, cheating game-dominating threats like Archon of Cruelty and Serra's Emissary into play.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Obstinate Gargoyle
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 2 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 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow