The Treason of Isengard by user9686374

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This deck is a mid-power spellslinger and combat aggro deck helmed by Saruman, the White Hand. The primary objective is to cast Saruman on curve and chain noncreature spells—such as draw spells, removal, and token generators—to steadily amass a colossal Orc Army token. While Saruman grants innate ward {2} to Orcs and Goblins, the deck translates that single tall threat into table-ending damage using trample enablers like Orcish Siegemaster, unblockability from The Black Gate or Corsairs of Umbar, and explosive combat finishers like Assault on Osgiliath. Backup strategies leverage go-wide goblin token generation through Krenko, Mob Boss and burn damage from Fiery Inscription and Guttersnipe. Without fast mana or tutors, the deck plays an honest mid-game curve, looking to establish board dominance by Turn 5 and close out the game around Turns 7 to 9 through sustained, evasive combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Beetleback Chief
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Commence the Endgame
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Dimir Locket
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relentless Advance
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surrounded by Orcs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Widespread Brutality