Revival Pants by DusWinburn

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Reanimator Midrange strategy commanded by Celes, Rune Knight. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging early self-mill, cycling, and Celes's entry ability to discard massive creature threats into the graveyard. The deck then uses cost-efficient reanimation spells like Reanimate, Victimize, and Stitch Together to cheat these behemoths onto the battlefield ahead of curve. Each creature entering from the graveyard triggers Celes, placing +1/+1 counters across your entire creature suite. Game-ending damage multipliers such as Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and Uncivil Unrest quickly convert this growing board presence into overwhelming, multi-opponent combat lethal pressure. Asymmetric attrition cards like Archfiend of Depravity and Sheoldred, Whispering One suppress opposing boards while you close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Envoy of the Ancestors
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Lightning, Army of One
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Control
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow