Mod.Raffine B3 by johnny_wall

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 66

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Esper Reanimator and tempo-midrange strategy led by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The primary game plan curves early evasive creatures into a Turn 3 Raffine, leveraging connive triggers to filter through the library, sculpt the hand, grow attackers, and discard game-warping reanimation targets such as Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. Cheap reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Persist deploy these behemoths ahead of curve by Turn 3 or 4. Concurrently, asymmetric stax pieces including Archon of Emeria, Drana and Linvala, and Teferi, Time Raveler constrain opposing game actions while protecting your own proactive lines. The deck closes games around Turn 6 through overwhelming evasive combat damage amplified by +1/+1 counters and devastating attrition triggers. A dense, ultra-efficient suite of 1-mana counterspells and removal provides top-tier interaction and defense throughout.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath