Saruman control mill by user9166483

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Bruvac is the hidden commander of this Esper mill deck. The primary plan is to empty all opponents' libraries in one turn with Painter's Servant + Grindstone, or with Bruvac plus a kicked Maddening Cacophony. Saruman of Many Colors is the value engine: his ward discourages removal, and every second spell mills two cards, letting him copy a relevant instant or sorcery from a graveyard for free. Secondary lines use The Mindskinner's unblockable mill, Syr Konrad's drain, and Breach the Multiverse reanimation. Four tutoring effects, 39 lands, and a full suite of counterspells support the combo while Propaganda and Ghostly Prison buy time.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alrund's Epiphany
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave