Saruman by user9297741

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Saruman, the White Hand is a Grixis spellslinger deck that turns every noncreature spell into Army growth. The primary plan is to build one oversized Orc Army with Saruman and finish with trample, extra combat, or unblockable; spell-slinger payoffs like Guttersnipe and Fiery Inscription provide a parallel damage clock. The deck also uses looting and mill to stock the graveyard for flashback lines, Goblin Dark-Dwellers, and Living Death. Sauron, Lord of the Rings functions as a secondary engine, amassing Orcs and recurring creatures, but Saruman is the repeatable core. The deck is incremental rather than combo-oriented, winning through chip damage and a single massive attacker.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 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 Gandalf the Grey
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 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 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Worn Powerstone