Celes and the Revolving Door Graveyard by user6278315

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Mardu aristocrats/reanimator deck helmed by Celes, Rune Knight, built around a single elegant engine: put persist creatures into the graveyard, reanimate them cheaply, and sacrifice them infinitely. Celes is the linchpin - her ETB loots to fill the yard, and her second ability puts a +1/+1 counter on every creature you control whenever one enters from a graveyard, which cancels the -1/-1 counter persist would otherwise leave behind. That interaction turns Murderous Redcap, Putrid Goblin, and friends into infinite loops, winning through Blood Artist-style drain, Murderous Redcap's own ping, or Altar of Dementia mill. The deck is dense with redundant reanimation (15+ spells), redundant persist bodies, and redundant sacrifice outlets, with Sun Titan and the two Aleshas providing non-commander loop engines. It is a focused, combo-forward build that can also win through a pumped combat board when the loop is disrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ark of Hunger
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Call of the Death-Dweller
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron Haze
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Defiant Salvager
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Hammerhead, Maggia Boss
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lapse of Certainty
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 1 Mortify
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Obstinate Gargoyle
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Recommission
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Return Triumphant
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Twilight Shepherd
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat