raffine by user2207997

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Esper deck plays a tempo-reanimator strategy led by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The game plan opens with evasive low-cost creatures on the first two turns, casts Raffine on Turn 3, and attacks immediately to trigger connive. Conniving draws and discards cards while growing attackers with +1/+1 counters. This lets you quickly pitch giant threats such as Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Archon of Cruelty, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater into your graveyard. On Turn 4, cheap reanimation spells cheat these monsters onto the battlefield to lock down opposing creatures and generate massive card advantage. The deck backs up this proactive board plan with cheap counterspells, flexible removal, and turn-silencing protection from Voice of Victory. It closes games by chaining large combat attacks and overwhelming opponents under continuous board control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dusk Legion Duelist
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Obscura Charm
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave