Is Raffine, Scheming Seer good in Commander?

Raffine, Scheming Seer in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Raffine, Scheming Seer turns every attacking creature into a connive trigger, letting you sculpt your hand and load up the board with +1/+1 counters simultaneously — the bigger your attack, the more cards you filter. The cost is a three-color identity and a 1/4 flying body that does nothing unless you're already attacking, so it rewards aggressive, wide builds and punishes slow starts.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

39.4% of decks · synergy 0.35

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus and Raffine, Scheming Seer share the same Obscura shell and the same gameplan: connect with multiple creatures, filter your hand, and grow your threats. Kamiz's double-strike trigger on an unblocked creature stacks especially well with counters that Raffine puts on your attackers.

02

Elenda and Azor

37.6% of decks · synergy 0.33

Elenda and Azor generate card advantage on your upkeep and want a wide, lifelink-heavy board — exactly the kind of attack step where Raffine, Scheming Seer's connive triggers compound fastest. The overlap in Esper colors means the mana base asks nothing extra.

03

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

26.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist cares about milling and graveyard density, and Raffine, Scheming Seer's connive mechanic feeds both by discarding cards you want in the yard while growing your attackers. At nearly 27% inclusion across over 23,000 decks, the synergy is clearly recognized at scale.

04

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton

26.0% of decks · synergy 0.21

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton rewards attacking with multiple creatures and accumulating counters — Raffine, Scheming Seer delivers both on the same combat step. The connive triggers let you dig for your best threats while your board grows into a counter-laden pressure machine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Raffine, Scheming Seer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. Commander is its natural home: the connive trigger scales with creature count in a way that's hard to replicate in one-on-one formats, and the three-color cost is trivial in 99-card mana bases. In Pioneer and Modern, a three-mana 1/4 that does nothing the turn it enters faces a much higher bar — aggressive decks don't have the wide attack steps to make multiple connive triggers reliable, and control decks would rather spend three mana on something that impacts the board immediately. Legacy and Vintage give it access to the most broken enablers, but it's simply too slow for those formats' typical game speeds.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.83 cheap tier

At $2.83, Raffine, Scheming Seer sits at the cheap end of the mythic rare spectrum and represents strong value for the board impact it delivers. Given its cross-format legality and high inclusion in popular Commander builds, that price is unlikely to erode further.