Celes Recursion by imperium5

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Led by Celes, Rune Knight, this Mardu deck operates as a high-synergy graveyard reanimation and aristocrat combo engine. Celes acts as both an efficient discard outlet and a hand-refilling engine from the command zone, while translating graveyard entries into permanent team-wide +1/+1 counters. The deck leverages targeted entomb effects and redundant reanimation spells to deploy high-impact engines such as Sun Titan, Flayer of the Hatebound, and Grave Pact. To close games, the deck pivots into infinite sacrifice loops utilizing Lesser Masticore with Celes and Ashnod's Altar, generating infinite colorless mana and infinitely large creatures, or draining the table directly through Syr Konrad, the Grim. Alternatively, Reveillark and Karmic Guide loops provide a robust commander-independent win condition. Supported by resilient protection like Guardian of Faith and Pull from Eternity, the deck delivers consistent mid-game lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dauntless Dismantler
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flamewake Phoenix
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Leyline of Sanctity
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Pull from Eternity
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Viscera Seer