Celes Reanimator by thewaltzee

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Mardu reanimator and graveyard midrange strategy commanded by Celes, Rune Knight. The primary game plan focuses on filling the graveyard during the early turns with self-mill, looting, and targeted search via Buried Alive. Once the graveyard is stocked with powerful targets such as Flayer of the Hatebound, Sepulchral Primordial, and Anger, the deck deploys cost-effective reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Stitch Together to cheat overwhelming threats into play ahead of curve. Celes, Rune Knight acts as both a hand-refiltering engine upon entry and an aggressive scaling mechanism, placing +1/+1 counters on the entire team whenever creatures return from the graveyard. Backed by versatile low-cost removal, heavy mass reanimation spells like Command the Dreadhorde and Rise of the Dark Realms, and asymmetric attrition from Archfiend of Depravity, the deck overwhelms opponents through compounded combat damage and direct damage triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
• 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1 Anger
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Depravity
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Celes, Rune Knight
• 1 Combustible Gearhulk
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Command the Dreadhorde
• 1 Continue?
• 1 Crackling Doom
• 1 Crypt Champion
• 1 Cyan, Vengeful Samurai
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darklight Phoenix
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1 Erode
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Fix What's Broken
• 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Forum Necroscribe
• 1 Garrison Excavator
• 1 Gau, Feral Youth
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
• 1 Key to the City
• 1 Laughing Mad
• 1 Mausoleum Secrets
• 1 Millikin
• 1 Moment of Reckoning
• 1 Mortify
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Murderous Redcap
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perpetual Timepiece
• 4 Plains
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Renegade Bull
• 1 Requisition Raid
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Sepulchral Primordial
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stargaze
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Sunscorched Divide
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thrór's Map
• 1 Tormenting Voice
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast