Saruman-esper by user9803532

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Esper control-mill deck whose engine is Saruman of Many Colors: every second spell mills each opponent, then lets you exile and free-cast a matching instant or sorcery from a graveyard. The primary kill is Duskmantle Guildmage plus Mindcrank: with the life-loss trigger active, any mill effect becomes a library-emptying loop. Secondary paths are The Mindskinner as an unblockable damage-to-mill clock, Syr Konrad chains, and half-library spells such as Traumatize and Maddening Cacophony. Saruman is a value engine rather than a required combo piece; no hidden commander exists. The Leveilleur pair, Taigam, Storm of Saruman, and The Council of Four amplify second-spell value and keep the mill machine fueled.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Taigam, Master Opportunist
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Uthros Psionicist
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Windfall