I love how Bant has some kind of Arabic inspired sub-theme. "Rafiq" is Arabic for "friend" or "companion" - so he's a "friend of the many." Besides that there's fake Arabic/Middle Eastern names like Gwafa Hazid and in some of the art for Bant cards there look like some Middle Eastern-inspired stuff (check out Knight Caption of Eos to see what I'm talking about.
Posted By:
Donovann
(1/1/2011 4:42:41 PM)
I very handy card to have in Legacy. Double strike can really catch someone off guard and he is so easy to bring out too. I play him in my NO Bant deck. If you have Progenitus on the board from Natural Order, you can easily search for Rafiq using Green Sun's Zenith, another Natural Order, or just hard cast him. Then you can swing with a 11/11, double strike, protection from everything.
Posted By:
BattleFish
(7/18/2011 10:56:18 AM)
Torn between Rafiq and Jenara for EDH general.
Posted By:
Guest513736147
(8/11/2010 10:28:50 AM)
Best exalted card there is. This guy is the first mythic rare I've ever opened in a pack.
Unfortunately, with the new rules, Battlegrace Angel doesn't give double lifelink anymore. :(
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(7/3/2009 7:44:27 PM)
I bought one of those premium all-foil booster packs yesterday, and this was the card in the rare/mythic slot. I was SO happy.
now I want to make an exalted deck.
Posted By:
Kohta
(1/29/2011 6:09:11 AM)
RAFIQ! He's probably the best Exalted Creature out there (Though Battlegrace Angel isn't far behind) and is pretty much a must-play in any bant deck.
Turn 1: Noble Hierarch
Turn 2: Rhox War Monk
Turn 3: Rafiq of the Many, swing with a 5/6 double striker with lifelink...
Turn 4: Battlegrace Angel, swing with a 6/7 double striker with double lifelink...
Yeah.
Posted By:
MetalCrisis
(4/21/2009 4:34:59 PM)
rafiq + lighting grieves = ownage
Posted By:
dagonaire
(12/1/2008 6:39:00 PM)
bad topdeck??? only if theres one in play. Even then I know I can attack with my in-play rafiq no matter what then cast another.
this is my take
T1 noble
T2 shorecrasher mimic
T3 favor of the overbeing (swing for 8 in the air vigilance trample)
T4 Rafiq (swing for 18)
I know rhox is amazing but I love trample, more likely to finish the game right there.
Posted By:
talonaris
(4/28/2009 9:50:36 AM)
I never get packs -- I'm a singles man -- , but one of the fews times I did I happened to get Rafig. No complaints here =)
Posted By:
VirtueVsVice
(10/2/2009 4:00:11 AM)
1: Forest, Hierarch
2: Island/Plains, Rhox War Monk
3: any land, Rafiq, swing for 5 doublestriking lifelinking
4: Final Hour, swing for 6 doublestriking lifelinking, untap, swing for 9 doublestriking lifelinking.
btw, lifelink doesnt stack, a Rhox monk and a Battlegrace will not give you double life link, you either have lifelink or you dont.
Posted By:
ArKive
(10/7/2009 7:38:40 PM)