Raffine by TheMalicious

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Flying Midrange strategy commanded by Raffine, Scheming Seer. It focuses on deploying low-cost, evasive creatures in the early turns, casting Raffine on Turn 3, and using connive triggers to sculpt the hand, grow attackers, and discard large payoffs into the graveyard. The deck bridges tempo aggression and midrange resilience by pairing reanimation spells like Reanimate and Sevinne's Reclamation with high-impact threats such as Tivit, Seller of Secrets, Skyhunter Strike Force, and The Lord of the Eagles. A rich suite of cheap countermagic and protective creatures defends the board against sweepers while tax pieces like Aven Mindcensor and Aven Interrupter disrupt opposing development. The deck systematically overwhelms the table through evasive combat damage by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Angel of Finality
• 1 Angelic Arbiter
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Aven Interrupter
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Brokers Hideout
• 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
• 1 Captain Marvel, Earth's Protector
• 1 Cavalier of Gales
• 1 Chromium, the Mutable
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Continue?
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crib Swap
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Fix What's Broken
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
• 1 Grey Host Reinforcements
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 6 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jackdaw Savior
• 1 Kaya's Guile
• 1 Leader, Super-Genius
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate
• 1 Locke Cole
• 1 Miscalculation
• 1 Moonstone, Harsh Mistress
• 1 Nimble Obstructionist
• 1 Obscura Storefront
• 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
• 7 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Promising Vein
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Recommission
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Riveteers Overlook
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Serra's Guardian
• 1 Settle the Wreckage
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Skycat Sovereign
• 1 Skyhunter Strike Force
• 1 Snapcaster Mage
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steamcore Scholar
• 1 Subtlety
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 The Lord of the Eagles
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
• 1 Tomik, Distinguished Advokist
• 1 Transcendent Dragon
• 1 Unbreakable Formation
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Unsettled Mariner
• 1 Vendilion Clique
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Wash Away
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 White Orchid Phantom
• 1 Windborn Muse
• 1 Wojek Investigator