Celes rewards bringing creatures back from the graveyard: her entry loots the hand, and any time another creature returns from or is cast from a graveyard, every creature gets a +1/+1 counter. The deck fills its graveyard with discard outlets, entomb effects and self-mill, then loops cheap creatures through sacrifice outlets, persist bodies and repeatable reanimators. Each recursion grows the board while sacrifice payoffs and free sac outlets turn the churn into mana, damage and value. Fast mana, tutors and turn-locking stax pieces push it toward compact Dualcaster Mage reanimation combos. How it wins: It either assembles a Dualcaster Mage loop with Sevinne's Reclamation or Lively Dirge and a sacrifice outlet, for infinite Goblin Bombardment damage or Altar of Dementia mill, or grinds opponents out with a counter-swollen recursive board and sacrifice pings. Key roles: - Graveyard setup: These cards discard, entomb and mill to stock the graveyard with reanimation targets and combo pieces, and Celes' own looting entry helps. (Buried Alive, Entomb, Faithless Looting) - Reanimation and recursion: Cheap spells and repeatable creature engines return creatures from the graveyard. Each return triggers Celes to put counters on the whole team. (Reanimate, Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate, Terra, Herald of Hope) - Sacrifice fodder and loops: Persist creatures, mobilize tokens and death-return effects die repeatedly. Each return from the graveyard re-triggers Celes and feeds the sac outlets. (Putrid Goblin, Murderous Redcap, Voice of Victory) - Sacrifice outlets and payoffs: Free outlets convert creatures into mana, treasure, scry, mill or direct damage, with ping payoffs punishing every sacrifice. (Goblin Bombardment, Ashnod's Altar, Mayhem Devil) - Spell-copy combo package: A flash copier duplicates a flashback reanimation spell or a recursion spree spell, which sets up infinite loops with a sacrifice outlet. Blink spells and token copies also reuse enter-the-battlefield effects. (Dualcaster Mage, Sevinne's Reclamation, Lively Dirge) - Tutors and turn protection: A dense tutor suite finds combo pieces, and effects that stop opponents from casting spells on the deck's own turn protect the combo turn. (Demonic Tutor, Imperial Recruiter, Grand Abolisher)

The world is slowly ebbing away... decklist

• Terra, Herald of Hope
• Voice of Victory
• Imperial Recruiter
• Faithless Looting
• Reanimate
• Ephemerate
• Animate Dead
• Demonic Tutor
• Necromancy
• Viscera Seer
• Putrid Goblin
• Altar of Dementia
• Grand Abolisher
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• Lively Dirge
• Godless Shrine
• Diabolic Intent
• Bolas's Citadel
• Saw in Half
• Spectator Seating
• Buried Alive
• Command Tower
• 3× Mountain
• 6× Swamp
• Sol Ring
• 5× Plains
• Isolated Chapel
• Dragonskull Summit
• Blood Crypt
• Ashnod's Altar
• Clifftop Retreat
• Twinflame
• Vault of Champions
• Beseech the Mirror
• Phyrexian Altar
• Luxury Suite
• Warren Soultrader
• Orcish Bowmasters
• Sacred Foundry
• Fetid Heath
• Simian Spirit Guide
• Mayhem Devil
• Gamble
• Culling the Weak
• Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
• Deadly Dispute
• Entomb
• Goblin Bombardment
• Swords to Plowshares
• Red Elemental Blast
• Anguished Unmaking
• Path to Exile
• Pyroblast
• Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
• Blasting Station
• Vandalblast
• Ranger-Captain of Eos
• Deflecting Swat
• Priest of Fell Rites
• Damn
• Cloudshift
• Murderous Redcap
• Sevinne's Reclamation
• Dualcaster Mage
• Silence
• Esper Sentinel
• Dark Ritual
• High Market
• Black Market Connections
• Necropotence
• Underworld Breach
• Chrome Mox
• Lotus Petal
• Imperial Seal
• Grim Tutor
• Orim's Chant
• Mother of Runes
• Marsh Flats
• Bloodstained Mire
• Arid Mesa
• Scrubland
• Badlands
• Plateau
• Vampiric Tutor
• Mana Vault
• Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
• Cruel Celebrant
• Al Bhed Salvagers