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Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart

Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn.
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What Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart actually does

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What a Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  5. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  6. Opt1 mana
  7. Path to Exile1 mana
  8. Ponder1 mana

Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  3. Brainstorm1 mana
  4. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  5. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  6. Opt1 mana
  7. Path to Exile1 mana
  8. Ponder1 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  3. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  4. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  5. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  6. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
  7. Parhelion II // Parhelion II0 mana
  8. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror2 mana
  6. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  7. Citywide Bust3 mana
  8. Displacement Wave2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  5. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  6. Cryptothrall4 mana
  7. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  8. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana

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