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Where the deck lacks oomph is with the potatoes

Raffine is a brilliant Esper reanimator commander, offering an unattractive engine target thats always worse to hit than whatever youre putting in the yard to bring back

His only evasion ability is menace, and he has no protection against removal, which is worrying, but it is easy to grant evasion with non-creature spells, and in Blue-Black, there are plenty of cards to protect Xande, including pitch spells, so I think he can surprisingly pull off a win

However, you could feasibly upgrade this deck into something thats much stronger as there are some really strong pieces here