Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin

Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin

Legendary Creature — Human Knight // Legendary Creature — Human Knight · {B} · Black/White commander

Deathtouch Darkness — Whenever Cecil deals damage, you lose that much life. Then if your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, untap Cecil and transform it. Lifelink Protect — Whenever Cecil attacks, other attacking creatures gain indestructible until end of turn.

Build a Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin deck →

What Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Cecil deals damage, you lose that much life. Then if your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, untap Cecil and transform it.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Cecil attacks, other attacking creatures gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
• Keyword · darknessdarkness
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink
• Keyword · protectprotect

What a Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 10× Refill your hand
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Build this deck in the Arcane Forge →

Arcane Foundry is free to join and every tool is included: the Arcane Forge deck builder, the ARCANE Analyzer that scores a deck by simulating games rather than counting staples, a card scanner, a collection vault, and live webcam Commander tables. Read the guide · Browse all commanders · Pricing