Raffine $90 Budget Deck by Buddadragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Esper Midrange build helmed by Raffine, Scheming Seer, focusing on the "Connive" mechanic to generate massive card flow and graveyard setup. The primary strategy involves deploying a "wide" board of low-mana, unblockable creatures like Invisible Stalker and Gudul Lurker to maximize Raffine s attack trigger. By attacking with multiple creatures, the deck filters through its library at an accelerated rate, discarding high-impact reanimation targets or cards that benefit from being binned. The deck wins through incremental combat damage (buffed by +1/+1 counters and Knowledge Is Power), drain effects like Queza, Augur of Agonies and Psychosis Crawler, or by executing a mass reanimation swing via Living Death or Ascend from Avernus. Raffine is central to the engine, providing both a discard outlet and a protective Ward shield, making the deck a resilient "tempo-reanimator" hybrid.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drake Haven
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faith of the Devoted
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gray Harbor Merfolk
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Knowledge Is Power
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 River Sneak
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wonder