Saruman by user7838122

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis spellslinger midrange deck commanded by Saruman, the White Hand. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Saruman on Turn 4 and chaining noncreature spells to amass a massive Orc Army token. Saruman provides ward {2} to Orcs and Goblins, granting light protection to the central threat. The deck converts noncreature spells into board presence, card advantage, and direct damage using payoffs such as Lord of the Nazgûl, Archmage Emeritus, and Fiery Inscription. Evasion lands like The Black Gate and Rogue's Passage, alongside sweepers like Chandra's Ignition, allow the large Army to close out games through combat. The list also features graveyard recursion via Rise of the Dark Realms and Living Death to rebuild or finish in the late game. While the deck possesses explosive spell turns, it relies on natural card flow and faces vulnerability to bounce and board wipe effects that reset tall Army tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Angrath, Captain of Chaos
• 1 Anhelo, the Painter
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Bitter Downfall
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
• 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consider
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Forbidden Alchemy
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 6 Island
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1 Languish
• 1 Lidless Gaze
• 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mask of Griselbrand
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mount Doom
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Revenge of Ravens
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Treasure Cruise
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Widespread Brutality
• 1 Wizards of Thay
• 1 Worn Powerstone