[EDH] Raffine, Scheming Seer - Connives Tempo by Cpt_Losco

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Esper tempo reanimator deck commanded by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap, evasive creatures on the first two turns to maximize Raffine's connive trigger upon entering the battlefield on turn 3. By attacking with multiple creatures on turn 4, Raffine filters through the library, discards massive high-CMC threats like Archon of Cruelty, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and loads them into the graveyard to be immediately reanimated for 1 to 2 mana via Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Necromancy. The resulting board state establishes severe asymmetric creature and resource suppression, rapidly choking opposing development. A robust suite of efficient countermagic, single-target removal, and onboard protection creatures shields the board while large combat damage and Akroma's Will close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 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 Azure Beastbinder
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Body Launderer
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bone Miser
• 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Containment Construct
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Demonic Counsel
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 1 Invisible Stalker
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Fell Rites
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Serra's Emissary
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shoreline Looter
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Sun Titan
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Treasure Cruise
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow