Raffine by basbas

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Tempo Aggro-Reanimator strategy commanded by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The game plan starts by deploying low-mana, evasive creatures on Turns 1 and 2 to build early board presence and prepare for combat. On Turn 3, casting Raffine allows attacking creatures to connive, filtering your hand, placing +1/+1 counters on attackers, and discarding game-ending creatures into the graveyard. On Turn 4, the deck uses highly efficient reanimation spells to cheat massive threats such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Valgavoth, Terror Eater into play. These monsters establish asymmetric locks, sweep enemy creatures, and strip away opposing resources. Backed by free and low-cost interaction spells, the growing aerial army closes out the game by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cynical Loner
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Dreamthief
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hope of Ghirapur
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Judge's Familiar
  • 1 Kinscaer Sentry
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Loki, God of Mischief
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Ori, Plate Stacker
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Exchange
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Wondrous Wasp
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Wyrm's Crossing Patrol