Phantom of the Opera

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Mardu reanimator deck, helmed by Celes, Rune Knight, focuses on discarding high-value creatures, reanimating them, and then flickering them to re-trigger powerful ETBs. The commander provides a one-shot loot+draw on entry and a persistent team-wide pump whenever a creature enters from the graveyard. The primary win condition is combat damage through a parade of reanimated threats like Archon of Cruelty and Valgavoth, Terror Eater, often accelerated by Mardu Siegebreaker which copies a large creature to attack each opponent simultaneously. Secondary avenues include Jaws, Relentless Predator's Blood token pings and Fear of Missing Out's extra combat steps. The deck is a value-oriented midrange strategy that grinds advantage through discard, recursion, and flicker loops, but lacks fast combo lines and is vulnerable to graveyard disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Balin's Tomb
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Collector's Cage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Escape Containment
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Guardian of Ghirapur
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jaws, Relentless Predator
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Lorehold, the Historian
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scrollshift
  • 1 Search for Dagger
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Surly Badgersaur
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow