Anti Gabe Win Condition deck by Enderflame

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper stax and pillowfort control strategy that slows the table to a crawl before closing the game through life-drain combos or mill engines. Early turns focus on establishing defense using attack taxes, board locks, and resource denial like Ghostly Prison, Solemnity, and Back to Basics. Saruman of Many Colors provides late-game value by milling opponents and stealing spells on double-spell turns, though the commander is not strictly required. The deck wins by assembling infinite life-drain loops such as Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or Enduring Tenacity, or through Bloodchief Ascension with Mindcrank.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Laboratory
  • 1 Argivian Find
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Back to Basics
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delaying Shield
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Energy Field
  • 1 Ensnaring Bridge
  • 1 Equipoise
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hurkyl's Recall
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Island Sanctuary
  • 1 Karmic Justice
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kismet
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Leyline of Sanctity
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Martyr's Bond
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Peacekeeper
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Strict Proctor
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Remedy
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Web of Inertia
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Worship