Raffine, Scheming Seer by MTGIsMyPassion69

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Esper reanimator/control deck built around Raffine's attack trigger to filter cards and fill the graveyard. The primary plan is to cast Raffine early, connect with small evasive creatures, then reanimate premium threats such as Archon of Cruelty, Jin-Gitaxias, and Sheoldred with Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Necromancy. Zur the Enchanter sits in the 99 as a hidden commander, fetching Necromancy, Smothering Tithe, or Mystic Remora on attack. The back end uses Living Death and large flyers to turn accumulated value into a board state that closes the game by combat damage, with Magister Sphinx lowering life totals. Permission and removal spells keep opponents from racing until the engine takes over.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashen Rider
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirrorshell Crab
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Moonshadow
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter