Celes Revival by user2288658

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Mardu reanimator list led by Celes, Rune Knight. It aims to discard high-impact creature bombs into the graveyard while sculpting a fresh hand on curve, then reanimate them to overwhelm the table. Early turns focus on mana development through artifacts like Sol Ring and Arcane Signet, alongside self-mill from cards like Shinra Reinforcements and Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire. Casting Celes on Turn 4 sets up the graveyard by pitching game-ending threats like Sepulchral Primordial, Combustible Gearhulk, or Flayer of the Hatebound. On Turn 5, efficient reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Victimize, and Stitch Together bring these behemoths into play, triggering Celes to pump the entire team with +1/+1 counters. Combat damage and direct burn from Syr Konrad, the Grim and Flayer of the Hatebound close the game around Turn 7. The deck boasts fast recovery through redundant recursion, though it remains vulnerable to graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Cyan, Vengeful Samurai
  • 1 Debtors' Knell
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flamewake Phoenix
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Interceptor, Shadow's Hound
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortify
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Obstinate Gargoyle
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phoenix Down
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rekindling Phoenix
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruin Grinder
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sabin, Master Monk
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shinra Reinforcements
  • 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snort
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Umaro, Raging Yeti
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Vayne's Treachery
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent's Limit Break
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zombify