Celes, Rune Knight

Gameplan

Celes is a Mardu reanimator-aggro hybrid: cheat big creatures back from graveyards, and each reanimation event pumps your whole board with +1/+1 counters. You loot on cast to fuel the yard, then loop reanimation triggers to snowball a wide, oversized team that beats down quickly.

Key Cards

• Reveillark — Returns small creatures repeatedly, triggering Celes's anthem each time it dies.
• Karmic Guide — Reanimates a creature, fires the counter trigger, and recurs with sacrifice loops.
• Sun Titan — Each recursion from the graveyard pumps the team and rebuilds your board.
• Reveillark + Body Double — Persistent reanimation loops generate repeated entered-from-graveyard triggers.
• Buried Alive — Stocks the graveyard instantly to set up explosive mass reanimation.
• Living Death — Reanimates your whole yard at once, stacking massive counters on everything.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and reanimation spells (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Victimize) plus enablers like Entomb and Faithless Looting to set up turn-three bombs. Build a sacrifice-and-return engine (Viscera Seer, Blood Artist, Reveillark loops) to maximize anthem triggers, and include protection like Teferi's Protection or counter-doublers such as Doubling Season to survive wraths and explode the board.