Celes, Rune Knight
Celes, Rune Knight Commander Deck
Celes, Rune Knight enables a reanimator strategy that fills the graveyard through cycling and discard effects, then repeatedly returns powerful creatures from the graveyard to trigger her +1/+1 counter distribution across the board. The deck leverages blink effects and enchantment-based reanimation to generate value from high-impact enter-the-battlefield creatures, building a wide, countered-up board while threatening opponents with massive threats like Archon of Cruelty and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. The primary win conditions involve going infinite through blink loops, most notably using Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward paired with reanimation or flicker effects to generate infinite tokens, ETBs, and death triggers, or assembling Preston, the Vanisher with blink pieces to create infinite mana and tokens.
Decklist
- Mountain
- Plains
- Swamp
- Sacred Foundry
- Luxury Suite
- Vault of Champions
- Pinnacle Monk
- Monument to Endurance
- Archon of Cruelty
- Skycrash
- Kulrath Zealot
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Tectonic Reformation
- Unburial Rites
- Barren Moor
- Forgotten Cave
- Secluded Steppe
- Animate Dead
- Ash Barrens
- Blasted Landscape
- Cloudshift
- Dread Return
- Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
- Ephemerate
- Felidar Guardian
- Forsake the Worldly
- Cavalier of Dawn
- Exotic Orchard
- Orzhov Signet
- Sun Titan
- Burnt Offering
- Badlands
- Plateau
- Scrubland
- City of Brass
- Reanimate
- Polluted Mire
- Bloodstained Mire
- Entomb
- Dakmor Salvage
- Godless Shrine
- Karmic Guide
- Toxic Deluge
- Enlightened Tutor
- Sneak Attack
- Vampiric Tutor
- Eerie Interlude
- Rakdos Signet
- Blood Crypt
- Lightning Bolt
- Rune-Scarred Demon
- Sol Ring
- Arid Mesa
- Marsh Flats
- Volrath's Stronghold
- Astral Slide
- Unearth
- Necromancy
- Astral Drift
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- Talisman of Conviction
- Talisman of Hierarchy
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Canyon Slough
- Savai Triome
- Spectator Seating
- Skyclave Apparition
- Jeska's Will
- Burning-Rune Demon
- Angel of the Ruins
- Shadowgrange Archfiend
- Saw in Half
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- Rose Room Treasurer
- Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
- Sister Hospitaller
- Preston, the Vanisher
- Oliphaunt
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Eagles of the North
- Lively Dirge
- Warren Soultrader
- Parting Gust
- Metamorphosis Fanatic
- Overlord of the Balemurk
- Priest of Fell Rites
- Solitude
- Mardu Siegebreaker
- Malboro
- Starting Town
- Summon: Yojimbo
- Capital City
- Glittering Massif
- Kirol, Attentive First-Year
- Twilight Diviner
- Conciliator's Duelist
- Sevinne's Reclamation