Speed comes from consistency in the first three turns, so having a high volume of these creatures provides the damage these decks want
The card is gorgeous, with deep purple and blue hues, intricate frame breaking, and it's a high rarity card that's highly playable as well
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
Usually the card was used to bounce or destroy all your opponents lands, or to counter or bounce all their spells over and over until you won
In the early game, you can apply pressure by attacking with multiple creatures and tokens and keep them protected from your opponents spells
The ability to give other creatures flash is also good, but taxing other players is this cards main goal