raffine by user2955422

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Esper list is a connive midrange-control deck that uses Raffine, Scheming Seer to attack, filter, and stuff the graveyard, then wins with compact reanimation loops. Raffine's attack trigger makes a creature connive X equal to the number of attackers, so the deck floods the air with cheap flyers and unblockable looters, draws into Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward plus Animate Dead or Necromancy, and converts that two-card loop into infinite ETBs, deaths, and Soldier tokens. Mirkwood Bats or Vengeful Bloodwitch drain the table on the spot; otherwise the tokens swing next turn. Hoarding Broodlord plus Saw in Half is the backup assembly line, tutoring the same pieces with convoke. Raffine is a three-mana ward body and the primary selection engine, not a combo piece - every win lives in the 99 and she is cheap to recast. A sixteen-counter stack wall and combat-damage draw from Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, and Reconnaissance Mission keep the game in grind mode until the loop is ready.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
• 1 Amphibian Downpour
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Apprentice Necromancer
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Demonic Counsel
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Diversion Unit
• 1 Drana and Linvala
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Emrakul's Messenger
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Glen Elendra Guardian
• 1 Hoarding Broodlord
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 7 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Judge's Familiar
• 1 Looter il-Kor
• 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
• 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mischievous Mystic
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Negate
• 1 Oblation
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Persist
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Restart Sequence
• 1 Sacrifice
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Scholar of the Ages
• 1 Shadowbringers
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shoreline Looter
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Snare
• 1 Spider-Sense
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
• 1 Vile Entomber
• 1 Whispering Madness