The Schemin' Sneer by Papa-Triste

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper control-reanimator deck helmed by Raffine, Scheming Seer leverages the connive mechanic to fuel the graveyard while generating card advantage and growing attackers. The primary game plan involves deploying evasive creatures, attacking to trigger connive, discarding high-value cards, and then reanimating them with Reanimate and Animate Dead. The deck also packs a dense suite of disruptive creatures, draw engines, and board control pieces like Toxrill, the Corrosive and Archfiend of Ifnir. Winning is achieved through incremental combat damage from growing flyers, reanimated threats, and value engines such as Consecrated Sphinx and Smothering Tithe. The deck is a flexible value midrange build that can pivot between aggressive chip shots and controlling the board with recursive threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clarion Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Doom's Time Platform
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Leader, Super-Genius
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Willie Lumpkin, Postman
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed