Knights of the Discard Table by wsampson

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Knight kindred reanimator strategy helmed by Celes, Rune Knight. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost Knights and mana rocks in the early turns, then casting Celes to filter the hand and seed the graveyard with high-impact threats. Once Celes is on the battlefield, recurring creatures from the graveyard triggers Celes's ability to distribute +1/+1 counters across your entire team. The deck leverages powerful kindred synergies, token generation from Worthy Knight and Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, and explosive combat finishers such as Moonshaker Cavalry, Shared Animosity, and Chocobo Knights to close out games. In addition to combat, incidental life drain from Corpse Knight, Knights' Charge, and Smitten Swordmaster chips away at opposing life totals. While the deck possesses resilient recursion engines like Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Chthonian Nightmare, it remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and sweepers, balancing its aggressive kindred beatdown with tactical reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Basri's Lieutenant
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breathless Knight
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charging Strifeknight
  • 1 Chivalric Alliance
  • 1 Chocobo Knights
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Inspiring Veteran
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Knights' Charge
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Personify
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Wintermoor Commander
  • 1 Worthy Knight