Spellslinging Saruman by Magnoss

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Esper spellslinger that uses cheap cantrips, counterspells, and second-spell payoffs to generate tokens and steal value. Saruman of Many Colors is the copy payoff: the second spell each turn mills each opponent and lets you exile and cast an instant or sorcery from a graveyard. The hidden engine is Ojer Pakpatiq; its front face is the key, and the Temple back is only a transforming land fallback. Alisaie/Alphinaud and Monk Class reduce or reward the second cast, while Lord of the Nazgul, Talrand, and Monastery Mentor turn every spell into a growing army. The deterministic finisher is Hullbreaker Horror plus two mana rocks, looping casts to make infinite Wraiths, Drakes, or Monks and attack.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
• 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Delay
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Floodfarm Verge
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Impulse
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 March of Swirling Mist
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Miscast
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Monk Class
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
• 1 Opt
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Path to Exile
• 2 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Press the Enemy
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Saruman of Many Colors
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Serum Visions
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Supreme Verdict
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Turbulent Moor
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Visions of Beyond
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1 Windfall