Raffine Tempo by Profferor

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper tempo-aggro deck, helmed by Raffine, Scheming Seer, wins by deploying a swarm of evasive low-cost creatures and attacking with a wide board to trigger Raffine's connive - drawing cards, filling the graveyard, and stacking +1/+1 counters. Token generators like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Ainok Strike Leader, and Wyrm's Crossing Patrol widen the board to maximize the connive count. The deck pairs this aggression with a reanimation subtheme (Animate Dead, Victimize, Dread Return) to cheat out game-ending bombs like Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Massacre Wurm, and Moonshaker Cavalry. A dense suite of combat-damage draw effects (Bident of Thassa, Reconnaissance Mission, Enduring Curiosity) keeps the hand full, while Psychosis Crawler converts that draw into a life-drain clock. The primary win is a pumped, evasive, wide combat swing; the secondary is incremental drain plus reanimated bombs.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Ainok Strike Leader
• 1 Alandra, Sky Dreamer
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Auton Soldier
• 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
• 1 Azure Beastbinder
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Battlefly Swarm
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Breath of Life
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Combat Calligrapher
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Curious Obsession
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elenda and Azor
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Emperor of Bones
• 1 Enduring Curiosity
• 1 Exhume
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Eye Collector
• 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
• 1 Foil
• 1 Fragmentize
• 1 Gemstone Mine
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Healer's Hawk
• 1 Infestation Sage
• 1 Inkshield
• 10 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
• 1 Military Intelligence
• 1 Mischievous Mystic
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Mizzium Skin
• 1 Mockingbird
• 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Path to Exile
• 5 Plains
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Snaremaster Sprite
• 1 Spectral Sailor
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 Tendo Ice Bridge
• 1 The Indomitable
• 1 Topplegeist
• 1 Unbreakable Formation
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Wyrm's Crossing Patrol