BRACKET 4 CELES by ianconvenience

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Mardu combo and aristocrats engine centered on Celes, Rune Knight. Celes's triggered ability places a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control whenever a creature enters from the graveyard. When paired with a creature featuring the persist mechanic—such as Putrid Goblin, Lesser Masticore, or Murderous Redcap—and a free sacrifice outlet, the +1/+1 counter immediately negates the persist -1/-1 counter as a state-based action. This interaction allows the persist creature to return infinitely. With Goblin Bombardment or Murderous Redcap, the loop produces infinite direct damage to all opponents in a single turn. With outlets like Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar, it filters the library or generates infinite mana to drain the table with Blood Artist effects. Strong burst mana, graveyard tutors, and resilient reanimation back up this compact win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortify
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Obstinate Gargoyle
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat