Raffine, Scheming Seer by nvater

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper Aggro-Reanimator deck piloted by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The strategy opens by deploying evasive, low-mana creatures on turns 1 and 2, which enable Raffine to connive multiple cards upon attacking on turn 3. This attack-driven engine rapidly sculpts your hand while discarding high-cost Praetors, Demons, and combo pieces into the graveyard. On turn 4, efficient reanimation spells cheat format-warping bombs such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Archon of Cruelty, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite onto the battlefield, creating asymmetric resource locks and wiping opposing boards. The deck can close the game through overwhelming combat damage or assemble the infinite token combo using Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward and Animate Dead. Backed by free countermagic, on-board spell-tax creatures, and phase-out protection like Clever Concealment, the deck protects its lead while dictating the pace of the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Containment Construct
• 1 Currency Converter
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Ghostly Pilferer
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
• 1 Hope of Ghirapur
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Island
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Likeness Looter
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Looter il-Kor
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Master of Death
• 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Ornithopter
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Persist
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Psychic Frog
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Seachrome Coast
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Serra Ascendant
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Shallow Grave
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Watery Grave