Celes, Rune Knight
Celes, Rune Knight Commander Deck
Celes, Rune Knight serves as both a card selection engine and a payoff for the deck's central theme of recurring creatures from the graveyard, distributing +1/+1 counters across the board whenever reanimated creatures enter. The deck fills its graveyard through cycling effects and discard outlets, then leverages a suite of reanimation spells and blink effects to repeatedly trigger Celes's counter distribution while generating value from powerful enter-the-battlefield creatures. The primary win conditions involve going infinite through blinking loops, most notably with Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward generating endless creature tokens via reanimation enchantments or blink spells, and Preston, the Vanisher paired with Felidar Guardian to create unbounded tokens and mana.
Decklist
- Barren Moor
- Forgotten Cave
- Secluded Steppe
- Animate Dead
- Ash Barrens
- Blasted Landscape
- Cloudshift
- Demonic Tutor
- Dread Return
- Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
- Ephemerate
- Felidar Guardian
- Forsake the Worldly
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Unburial Rites
- Lightning Bolt
- Rune-Scarred Demon
- Sol Ring
- Swords to Plowshares
- Wander in Death
- Fellwar Stone
- Cavalier of Dawn
- Boros Signet
- Exotic Orchard
- Inferno Titan
- Orzhov Signet
- Sun Titan
- Burnt Offering
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- City of Brass
- Reanimate
- Polluted Mire
- Bloodstained Mire
- Entomb
- Dakmor Salvage
- Godless Shrine
- Karmic Guide
- Toxic Deluge
- Sneak Attack
- Vampiric Tutor
- Eerie Interlude
- Rakdos Signet
- Blood Crypt
- Astral Drift
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- Talisman of Conviction
- Talisman of Hierarchy
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Canyon Slough
- Savai Triome
- Tortured Existence
- Spectator Seating
- Skyclave Apparition
- Malakir Rebirth
- Jeska's Will
- Angel of the Ruins
- Marsh Flats
- Volrath's Stronghold
- Astral Slide
- Unearth
- Necromancy
- Priest of Fell Rites
- Solitude
- 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
- Angel of Indemnity
- Witch Enchanter
- Warren Soultrader
- Boggart Trawler
- Metamorphosis Fanatic
- Skycrash
- Mardu Siegebreaker
- Malboro
- Starting Town
- Summon: Yojimbo
- Capital City
- Glittering Massif
- Twilight Diviner
- Umbral Expanse
- Practiced Scrollsmith
- Mountain
- Plains
- Swamp
- Sacred Foundry
- Luxury Suite
- Vault of Champions
- Archon of Cruelty
- Pinnacle Monk
- Monument to Endurance