Raffine 🪦♻️ Graveyard Shift by ScryBaby

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper reanimator-midrange deck commanded by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The game plan deploys low-cost utility creatures during the opening turns, lands Raffine on Turn 3, and uses combat-driven connive triggers to simultaneously sculpt the hand, grow attackers, and discard high-mana game-ending creatures into the graveyard. On Turn 4, efficient recursion spells like Reanimate and Animate Dead cheat massive threats into play, including Archon of Cruelty, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Vilis, Broker of Blood. A dense interaction suite—highlighted by free answers like Fierce Guardianship and Deadly Rollick—protects the board while suppressing opposing counterplay. The deck secures victory over two subsequent combat rotations by attacking with large flying threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K.
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Ori, Plate Stacker
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 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 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Serra Paragon
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow