This is the first time I build a deck absolutely from scratch and I'm pretty proud. It's a very fun gameplan, accrue tokens and value at the same time. I'm in love. And I usually dislike UW decks since they're often hard control shells, but this one is different, it plays completely differently. It feels more like an aggro deck at heart and it valorizes some sweet token cards that don't get to see the light very often.

You'll usually stall the game and be on the defensive with your little one-ones until you can pivot and grow them (either with Lightscribe, Poppet Factory, Wedding Ceremony, Makindi Stampede, or heck even Raff himself).

After playing with the deck some more it becomes obvious that some cards particularly shine in this deck. Clarion Spirit, Nadir Kraken and Poppet Stitcher (and obviously Monastery Mentor) are absolute houses as they're so good at generating bodies to tap with Raff. Invasion of Segovia really rocks and once it flips it's often going to secure the win.

Raff is a human and most of the tokens aren't, so Of One Mind is usually a freaking sorcery speed Ancestral Recall.

The unblockable fishes from Exotic Pets are really strong to go face or finish opposing planeswalkers. Definitely one of the best "Raise the Alarm" effects in this deck.

I like that there are a few ways to bypass the Commander Tax and recur Raff from the graveyard. It is often right to let him go to the grave to bring him back with Restoration of Eiganjo or Extraction Specialist and save some mana that way.

This deck's worst enemy is Chandra Awakened Inferno as she's a repeatable, uncounterable wrath. But hey she's not very common these days.

---------[ 12 - 2023 - catching up with SOI - MOM - LOTR - WOE - LCI - KTK and Anthologies (18 change) ] ---------

IN :

• Cyclonic Rift
• Deceive the Messenger
• Dig Through Time
• Invasion of Gobakhan
• Flooded Strand
• Get Lost
• Giver of Runes
• Invasion of Segovia
• Monastery Mentor
• Prince Imrahil the Fair
• Reprieve
• Restless Anchorage
• River's Rebuke
• Sleight of Hand
• Snapcaster mage
• Tishana's Tidebinder
• Treasure Cruise
• Virtue of Loyalty

OUT :

• Arcane Signet
• Archmage Emeritus
• Battle Screech
• Brave The Elements
• Dovin, Grand Arbiter
• Dusk // Dawn
• Intangible Virtue
• March of Otherworldly Light
• Naiad of Hidden Cove
• Ojutai's Command
• Reflector Mage
• Release the Dogs
• Settle the Wreckage
• Temple of Enlightenment
• Thirst for Discovery
• Unbreakable Formation
• Wrath of God
• Island

----------------[ 02 - 2023 - adding All Will be One (4 change) ] ----------------

IN :

• Skrelv, Defector Mite
• Skrelv's Hive
• Charge of the Mites
• Seachrome Coast

OUT :

• Legion's Landing - not an instant nor a sorcery
• Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
• Depose / Deploy
• Plains

RULED OUT : Mondrak, White Sun's Twilight, Unctus Grand Metatect

----------------[ 12 - 2022 - adding Explorer Anthology 2 (4 change) ] ----------------

IN :

• Brave the Elements
• Reflector Mage
• Selfless Savior
• Mana Tithe

OUT :

• Slip Out the Back
• Narset, Parter of Veils (great card but it doesn't especially curve well in the deck and even as a draw 2 we'd prefer an instant or sorcery)
• Shark Typhoon (surprisingly awkward token creator in this deck)
• Ledger Shredder (doesn't fit the gameplan that well)

--------------------[ 11 - 2022 - adding Brother's War (0 change) ] --------------------

Yup, I don't see anything interesting in this set for the deck. I eyed Hurkyl and Tocasia's Welcome but I don't feel the deck needs more passive card draw like that.