Saruman Spell Sling by WolfofCamelot

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control list helmed by Saruman of Many Colors. The strategy focuses on controlling the early board with efficient single-target removal, board wipes, and attack tax enchantments while setting up mana rocks and cantrips. Once the mana base is established, the deck casts high-value engines such as Saruman of Many Colors, Lord of the Nazgûl, Archmage Emeritus, or Storm of Saruman. By pacing its spells to cast exactly two spells each turn—including on opponents' turns using cheap instants—the deck generates massive card advantage, amasses menace Wraith tokens, and casts powerful spells directly from opponents' graveyards for free. Win conditions are closed through overwhelming combat damage from buffed Wraith armies or suffocating card advantage that grinds opponents out of resources.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Shadow of the Enemy
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorcerous Squall
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall