wake me up by vizualleader

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu graveyard aggro and reanimator midrange build led by Celes, Rune Knight. The primary game plan stocks the graveyard with high-impact creatures through early discard outlets, self-mill cards, and direct tutors like Buried Alive. Once the graveyard is loaded, low-cost reanimation spells and recurring creatures bring threats onto the battlefield ahead of curve. Whenever a creature enters from the graveyard, Celes triggers to place +1/+1 counters on your entire board, turning standard recursion into exponential combat pressure. High-damage attackers featuring double strike, such as Sabin, Master Monk and Cyan, Vengeful Samurai, leverage these counter buffs to eliminate opponents in rapid succession. Secondary burn engines like Gau, Feral Youth and Shadow, Mysterious Assassin apply non-combat life loss to break stalls. While the deck recovers smoothly from creature sweepers, it remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coin of Fate
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyan, Vengeful Samurai
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Leyline of Sanctity
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Palace Jailer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phoenix Down
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sabin, Master Monk
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Seasoned Dungeoneer
  • 1 Setzer, Wandering Gambler
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Falcon, Airship Restored
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn