Celes, pretty girls die young by UpTIlt

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

An aggressive Mardu reanimator built around Celes, Rune Knight. Its primary line dumps Eirdu and Flayer into the graveyard, reanimates them, transforms Eirdu into Isilu to grant persist, then loops a sacrificed creature through Viscera Seer or Altar of Dementia for infinite damage or mill. Celes serves as a draw-into-graveyard engine and a pump that upgrades the persist/undying returns. Dihada, Binder of Wills acts as a hidden-commander-grade dig, pitching legendaries and creating treasures. Secondary paths are midrange haste beatdown with Anger/Urabrask and mass-reanimation Living Death turns. The deck is resilient because most pieces can be reanimated repeatedly, but it has no stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow