Lotr spellslinger by kayrock

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger and Amass Midrange strategy built around Saruman, the White Hand. The primary game plan accelerates into Saruman on Turn 3 or 4 using efficient mana rocks. Once Saruman is active, every noncreature spell grows a central Orc Army token while triggering supplementary magecraft and token-generating payoffs. The deck controls the board with versatile removal like Bedevil and Widespread Brutality alongside high-quality countermagic like Mana Drain. It finishes games through a combination of heavy combat damage from an evasive Army, table-wide burn from Fiery Inscription and Guttersnipe, and direct damage flings via Kazuul's Fury. While the deck possesses strong resilience and flexible backup plans through alternate token engines, its win condition requires multiple attack steps across consecutive turns to eliminate a full pod.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bleeding Edge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blossombind
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flight
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Intuition
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Maestros Charm
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surrounded by Orcs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Sword of Once and Future
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Young Pyromancer