Ceres unearthed by user9618365

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Mardu deck leverages Celes, Rune Knight to blend aggressive beatdown with graveyard recursion. Casting Celes on Turn 4 sculpts the hand and seeds the graveyard with high-impact creatures and unearth threats. The primary strategy focuses on recurring creatures via unearth and reanimation spells, triggering Celes to distribute +1/+1 counters across the entire team while burning opponents with Flayer of the Hatebound and Gau, Feral Youth. The deck features robust spot removal to dismantle opposing threats and runs efficient protection like Clever Concealment to safeguard developed boards. Because the list foregoes infinite combos and fast mana tutors in favor of redundant synergistic pieces, it plays an honest, resilient midrange game that consistently pressures life totals between Turns 6 and 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Defy Death
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dregscape Zombie
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 First-Sphere Gargantua
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hell's Thunder
  • 1 Hellspark Elemental
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Palace Jailer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Dragon Engine
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Scrapwork Cohort
  • 1 Scrapwork Mutt
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shambling Remains
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snort
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Doomguide
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Viscera Dragger