Art by Runa I. Rosenberger
Commander deckB
Commander Raffi Musiker
Abuse Commander Raffi Musiker's enter-the-battlefield ability through repeatable blink and recursion, converting Clue tokens and sacrifice triggers into massive life drain with artifact aristocrat payoffs.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Commander Raffi Musiker
2BLegendary Creature — Human Officer
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Black Market Connections
2BEnchantment
provides steady treasure, card advantage, and bodies
Card Draw
10
Morbid Opportunist
2BCreature — Human Rogue
steady draw engine from regular creature deaths
Reckoner's Bargain
1BInstant
sacrifices tokens or creatures for card draw and life
Erebos, God of the Dead
3BLegendary Enchantment Creature — God
repeatable mana sink card draw that stops opposing lifegain
Bolas's Citadel
3BBBLegendary Artifact
turns excess life into massive library velocity and finishing burst
Removal
11
Invoke Despair
1BBBBSorcery
punishes opponents across creatures, enchantments, and planeswalkers
Threats/Wincons
22
Marionette Apprentice
1BCreature — Human Artificer
drains opponents whenever artifacts or creatures are sacrificed
Marionette Master
4BBCreature — Human Artificer
lethal burst damage whenever Clues or treasures are sacrificed
Mirkwood Bats
3BCreature — Bat
drains all opponents on both token creation and token sacrifice
Disciple of the Vault
BCreature — Human Cleric
cheap drain whenever Clues or other artifacts hit the graveyard
Nadier's Nightblade
2BCreature — Elf Warrior
drains each opponent and gains life whenever tokens leave the battlefield
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
pings opponents whenever creatures die, exile, or leave the graveyard
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
3BBCreature — Zombie
massive devotion-based life drain and swing
Ayara, First of Locthwain
BBBLegendary Creature — Elf Noble
drains on black creature ETBs and sacrifices fodder for cards
Zulaport Cutthroat
1BCreature — Human Rogue Ally
drains all opponents whenever your creatures die
Falkenrath Noble
3BCreature — Vampire Noble
flying drain redundancy across any creature deaths
Ravenous Chupacabra
2BBCreature — Beast Horror
creature removal on a reusable body
Grave Titan
4BBCreature — Giant
independent army in a can and sacrifice fuel generator
Sheoldred, Whispering One
5BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
recurs your ETB creatures and forces opponent sacrifices
Massacre Wurm
3BBBCreature — Phyrexian Wurm
wipes opposing small boards and deals heavy drain damage
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
2BLegendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
weaponizes Musiker's lifegain mode into direct damage
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
1BBLegendary Creature — Nightmare
sacrifices Clues to force opponents to sacrifice artifacts or lose life
Kokusho, the Evening Star
4BBLegendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
huge life drain trigger upon death and recursion
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
rewards combat with card draw and offers a late-game win outlet
Pitiless Plunderer
3BCreature — Human Pirate
converts every creature death into treasure artifacts
Weaponcraft Enthusiast
2BCreature — Aetherborn Artificer
cheap creature that enters with multiple artifact creature tokens
Nettlecyst
3Artifact — Equipment
massive threat scaling with all created Clues and artifacts
Utility
9
Conjurer's Closet
5Artifact
blinks the commander every turn for extra Clues or graveyard hate
Blade of Selves
2Artifact — Equipment
produces myriad copies of the commander to trigger multiple ETB choices
Golden Argosy
4Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
blinks crewed ETB creatures including your commander each combat
Nim Deathmantle
2Artifact — Equipment
reusable creature resurrection that retriggers ETB abilities
Phyrexian Reclamation
BEnchantment
repeatable hand recursion for fallen ETB utility creatures
Animate Dead
1BEnchantment — Aura
efficient enchantment reanimation for your key threats
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
protects commander and gives immediate haste
