Celes by user2988331

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu graveyard reanimator strategy piloted by Celes, Rune Knight. It aims to fill the graveyard rapidly using efficient self-mill and specific entomb effects, then cheat high-impact combat creatures onto the battlefield ahead of curve. Cards like Buried Alive, Unmarked Grave, and Ripples of Undeath set up the graveyard with threats such as Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant, Aurelia, the Warleader, Avacyn, Angel of Horror, and Anger. Reanimation spells including Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Victimize bring these threats into play, granting them haste via Anger and team-wide buffs through Celes's entry trigger. The deck establishes a critical must-answer board state by Turn 5 and closes the game through overwhelming combat damage across subsequent turns. While highly resilient to single-target removal thanks to redundant reanimation spells, the deck is naturally weak to dedicated graveyard hate and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyan, Vengeful Samurai
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Quintorius, Field Historian
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
  • 1 Silence the Echo
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wear // Tear