NivZula The Professor(Saruman) by joker72

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis spellslinger deck helmed by Saruman, the White Hand that converts every noncreature spell into a growing Orc Army while a dense suite of magecraft and cast-trigger payoffs burn the table out. The primary plan is to chain instants and sorceries under cost reducers and copy engines, stacking Army counters, Treasure tokens, and ping damage until a storm finisher or oversized X-spell closes the game. Secondary paths include the Niv-Mizzet, Parun + Niv-Mizzet, Visionary damage-draw loop, overloaded Mizzix's Mastery turns, and combat with a ward-protected Army. Saruman, the White Hand is a strong value engine and combat closer but is not required for the spellslinger kill lines living in the 99. The deck plays reactive draw-go control early, then explodes on a single stacked turn once mana and engines align.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bonus Round
• 1 Borne Upon a Wind
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Comet Storm
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Desperate Ritual
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
• 1 Electrodominance
• 1 Electrostatic Field
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiery Islet
• 1 Fire Nation Palace
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Impulse
• 1 Increasing Vengeance
• 5 Island
• 1 Izzet Charm
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1 Kolaghan's Command
• 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• 1 Mizzix's Mastery
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Negate
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Prismari Charm
• 1 Prismari Command
• 1 Professor Onyx
• 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sheoldred's Edict
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Thousand-Year Storm
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Young Pyromancer