New Untitled Deck by HighV0lta9e

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper midrange strategy commanded by Saruman of Many Colors, focusing on spell-velocity attrition, opponent mill, and graveyard theft. The game plan opens by establishing mana velocity through a dense suite of 2-mana artifacts, bridging into mid-game engines such as Black Market Connections and Archmage of Runes. Once Saruman hits the battlefield on Turn 5 or 6, every turn that sequences two spells triggers his ability to mill opponents and cast their best exiled instants, sorceries, or enchantments for free. Secondary win conditions like Consuming Aberration capitalize on full opposing graveyards, scaling into game-ending threats that mill further upon every cast. The deck tops its curve with haymakers like Rise of the Dark Realms to seize the entire table's dead creatures. While possessing robust late-game inevitability and strong recursion, the list eschews counterspells, relying instead on creature removal, defensive taxes, and raw card velocity to out-grind opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Extract Brain
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hoarder's Greed
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Life Insurance
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mister Negative
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Restricted Office // Lecture Hall
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stolen Goods
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Way of the Cryomancer
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wishing Well