Mardu v4 by dcb

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Celes, Rune Knight as a reliable discard outlet, hand sculptor, and team-wide buff engine. The core strategy revolves around pitching massive creature threats—such as Sepulchral Primordial, Angel of the Ruins, and Sun Titan—into the graveyard during early turns, then reviving them ahead of curve with efficient reanimation spells. Once on the battlefield, these creatures are duplicated and re-triggered using token copy effects like Calamity, Galloping Inferno, Duke Ulder Ravengard, and Flameshadow Conjuring, or blinked with Ephemerate and Appa, Steadfast Guardian. Every creature entering from the graveyard triggers Celes to distribute +1/+1 counters across your entire board, converting value engines into a lethal combat clock by Turn 7. The list backs this game plan with flexible ETB removal, resilient recursion lines, and instant-speed interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Appa, Steadfast Guardian
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Bitter Reunion
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Calamity, Galloping Inferno
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Curious Colossus
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Duke Ulder Ravengard
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flameshadow Conjuring
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Luminate Primordial
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Melded Moxite
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Ori, Plate Stacker
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Summon: Yojimbo
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tithe
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 What Must Be Done
  • 1 White Plume Adventurer
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow