Celes, Rune Knight
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
When Celes enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one.
Whenever one or more other creatures you control enter, if one or more of them entered from a graveyard or was cast from a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Combos with Celes, Rune Knight
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Murderous Redcap Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Goblin Bombardment Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Breath of Fury Thunderblust Rattleblaze Scarecrow Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite combat damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Crystalline Crawler Gravecrawler Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
- Phyrexian Altar Forsaken Miner Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite damage
- Crystalline Crawler Forsaken Miner Viscera Seer Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
Showing the 6 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2025-06-06
You choose how many cards to discard as Celes's first ability resolves. You may choose to discard no cards and just draw a card.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Celes, Rune Knight in the command zone.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Celes, Rune Knight, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terra, Herald of Hope | 2 | 0 | — |
| Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kroxa and Kunoros | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 4 decks
Every version of Celes, Rune Knight
5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $1.82
- Foil
- $0.38
Extended Art
- Normal
- $2.80
- Foil
- $8.05
Inverted
- Normal
- $34.52
- Foil
- $48.87
Inverted
- Foil
- $229.68
- Foil
- $1.96
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Celes, Rune Knight — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.