Raffine the Conniving Thief by user1984961

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Esper connive-aggression deck built around Raffine, Scheming Seer. The plan is to attack with evasive bodies every turn, converting Raffine's connive trigger into heavy card selection, graveyard setup, and +1/+1 counters on the most important attacker. It wins primarily through combat - usually by growing an unblockable Blighted Agent into a one-shot infect kill, or by attaching Phyresis and Brotherhood Regalia to Raffine herself. A secondary "steal-and-cast" engine involving Fallen Shinobi, Gonti, Night Minister, Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor, and Rev, Tithe Extractor generates card advantage and free spells. There are no infinite combos; Exsanguinate is a late-game mana sink rather than a loop. Kamiz, Obscura Oculus and Leader, Super-Genius serve as backup connive engines if Raffine is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consign to Memory
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evil Twin
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus
  • 1 Karn's Temporal Sundering
  • 1 Leader, Super-Genius
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meddle
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Noggle the Mind
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oketra's Last Mercy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed