Esper Reanimator

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Raffine, Scheming Seer spearheads an aggressive Esper tempo and graveyard-value strategy. The primary game plan deploys cheap, evasive creatures on early turns, then casts Raffine to convert wide attacks into massive connive triggers. Conniving filters through the library, puts +1/+1 counters onto unblockable attackers, and discards high-impact cards. The deck closes games by swinging with heavily buffed evasive threats like Slither Blade and Blighted Agent, draining opponents through Faith of the Devoted and Feast of Sanity, or reanimating discarded heavy hitters like Archfiend of Ifnir. Extensive madness synergies, instant-speed interaction, and graveyard recursion ensure continuous board presence and table control throughout the match.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archfiend of Spite
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Call to the Netherworld
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Change of Plans
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Circular Logic
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Dark Withering
  • 1 Dihada's Ploy
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Faith of the Devoted
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghastlord of Fugue
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hammers of Moradin
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kitchen Imp
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Mask of the Schemer
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Obscura Charm
  • 1 Obscura Confluence
  • 1 Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Psychotic Episode
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Retribution of the Ancients
  • 1 Sadistic Slash
  • 1 Scrounging Skyray
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sefris of the Hidden Ways
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadow of the Grave
  • 1 Shadowstorm Vizier
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Shrike Force
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave