Beamin N’ Schemin by StinkyDinkles

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper reanimator midrange list commanded by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The strategy curves low-mana evasive creatures into Raffine to trigger connive, filtering cards and stocking the graveyard with game-ending threats. The deck leverages efficient reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Dance of the Dead to cheat massive creatures into play as early as Turn 3 or 4. Targets like Archon of Cruelty and Toxrill, the Corrosive generate immense resource disparity and board control, while an infinite loop between Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward and Animate Dead produces an unbounded army of Soldier tokens to eliminate the table. Backed by premier low-cost countermagic, versatile spot removal, and robust card draw engines, the deck transitions smoothly between aggressive tempo, hard attrition, and combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Careful Study
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elenda and Azor
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Faithful Mending
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Floodfarm Verge
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Inkshield
• 4 Island
• 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Lich's Relic
• 1 Likeness Looter
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 M.O.D.O.K.
• 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 2 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Psychic Frog
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Restart Sequence
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Suspend
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 The Queen of Dale
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Turbulent Wetlands
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Wonder