Rafiq by Sinigang7

Format: Commander

Commander: Rafiq of the Many

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Bant Exalted Voltron build led by Rafiq of the Many. The strategy focuses on curving out low-mana exalted creatures and artifacts during early turns, then resolving Rafiq on Turn 4 to grant double strike to solo attackers. On Turn 5, stacked exalted triggers deal massive chunks of commander damage, quickly putting individual opponents on rapid lethal clocks. High-impact enchantments such as Finest Hour and Sovereigns of Lost Alara (tutoring Colossification or Armadillo Cloak) enable single-turn eliminations. Because it wins strictly through combat, the deck eliminates opponents sequentially, requiring 3 response cycles to clear the entire table. Its interaction and protection suites provide functional coverage against targeted removal and wide boards, though the heavy reliance on combat connections makes evasion and timing essential.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akrasan Squire
• 1 Angelic Benediction
• 1 Angelic Exaltation
• 1 Aqueous Form
• 1 Ardent Plea
• 1 Armadillo Cloak
• 1 Aven Squire
• 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
• 1 Bant Battlemage
• 1 Bant Charm
• 1 Bant Panorama
• 1 Bant Sureblade
• 1 Battlegrace Angel
• 1 Behemoth Sledge
• 1 Belt of Giant Strength
• 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
• 1 Brokers Charm
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cathedral of War
• 1 Colossification
• 1 Colossus Hammer
• 1 Combat Research
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Court Archers
• 1 Dauntless Escort
• 1 Dawnray Archer
• 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1 Ethercaste Knight
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Favor of the Overbeing
• 1 Finest Hour
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 8 Forest
• 1 Frontline Sage
• 1 Giltspire Avenger
• 1 Guardians of Akrasa
• 1 Hindering Light
• 8 Island
• 1 Jhessian Balmgiver
• 1 Kiss of the Amesha
• 1 Knight of Glory
• 1 Knight of New Alara
• 1 Knight of the Reliquary
• 1 Knotvine Paladin
• 1 Lay of the Land
• 1 Make a Stand
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Noble Hierarch
• 1 Obelisk of Bant
• 1 Offering to Asha
• 1 Outrider of Jhess
• 9 Plains
• 1 Qasali Pridemage
• 1 Rafiq of the Many
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rogue's Gloves
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
• 1 Sigil Blessing
• 1 Sigil of Valor
• 1 Sigil of the Nayan Gods
• 1 Sigiled Paladin
• 1 Sigiled Sword of Valeron
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Single Combat
• 1 Snake Umbra
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Sovereigns of Lost Alara
• 1 Staggering Insight
• 1 Steward of Valeron
• 1 Stoic Angel
• 1 Sublime Archangel
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Waveskimmer Aven