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Celes, Rune Knight + Umbral Collar Zealot + Persist Creature
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How it works
Prerequisites
- Persist Creature
Steps
- Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the persist creature.
- When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- When the persist creature enters the battlefield, Celes's second ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
- Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Spicy tier?
1–2 · Exhibition & Core
Spellbook classifies this as Spicy — not for these brackets.
3 · Upgraded
Allowed in this bracket.
4–5 · Optimized & cEDH
All combos are allowed.