Celes ma Chere (FF Only) by Yik

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Mardu deck is helmed by Celes, Rune Knight and focuses on combining graveyard reanimation with aggressive combat scaling. Celes acts as both an enabler and an engine, rummaging away high-cost legendary threats on entry and buffing the entire board whenever creatures enter or are cast from the graveyard. The early game establishes mana rocks and self-mill pieces such as Stitcher's Supplier and Priest of Fell Rites. Once Celes enters on Turn 4, the deck reanimates heavy hitters like Flayer of the Hatebound, Sun Titan, and Sephiroth, Fallen Hero to apply immediate pressure. Direct damage from Flayer and Syr Konrad, the Grim softens opponents while broad buffs from Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness and damage doubling from Lightning, Army of One close out games by Turn 7. The deck maintains strong resilience through redundant recursion and versatile Mardu removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Brilliant Wings
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coin of Fate
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Fated Clash
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Judgment of Alexander
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Lightning, Army of One
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rinoa, Angel Wing
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosa, Resolute White Mage
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sabin, Master Monk
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Search for Dagger
  • 1 Seifer, Balamb Rival
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 1 Suplex
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Falcon, Airship Restored
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Ultima
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast