B3- Celes Combo by DoomedQuaker

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Mardu Aristocrats combo deck commanded by Celes, Rune Knight. The primary strategy exploits Celes's ability to place a +1/+1 counter on all your creatures whenever a creature enters from the graveyard. When paired with any creature featuring the persist mechanic, such as Putrid Goblin or Murderous Redcap, the +1/+1 counter from Celes cancels out the -1/-1 counter from persist via state-based actions. Sacrificing the persist creature to a free outlet like Goblin Bombardment, Altar of Dementia, or Viscera Seer generates an infinite loop. This loop yields infinite damage, mill, or death-drain triggers through payoffs like Blood Artist and Cruel Celebrant. The deck achieves consistent assembly by turn 5 through dense functional redundancy across persist creatures, sacrifice outlets, and reanimation spells, augmented by wheel effects like Wheel of Fortune and Celes's own rummaging trigger upon entering the battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Call of the Death-Dweller
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Lingering Tormentor
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Mythos of Snapdax
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Obstinate Gargoyle
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Restless Apparition
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Storm of Souls
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Golden Throne
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Twilight Shepherd
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Unexplained Absence
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat