Saruman Deck by user8883573

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger Midrange strategy commanded by Saruman, the White Hand. The primary game plan revolves around casting noncreature spells—such as removal, card draw, and burn—to trigger Saruman and build a massive Orc Army token with built-in ward 2 protection. The deck accelerates through 2-to-3 CMC mana artifacts on early turns, establishes Saruman on turn 4, and begins converting every spell into power and board presence. On turn 6, the deck transitions to a lethal threat by leveraging large-scale payoffs like Chandra's Ignition, spellslinger burn from Fiery Inscription and Guttersnipe, or evasion through lands like The Black Gate and Rogue's Passage. Backup threats like Lord of the Nazgûl and Sauron, the Dark Lord ensure resilient board generation if the commander is removed. While the deck boasts diverse creature removal and solid token scaling, it is vulnerable to mass bounce or exile sweepers and possesses limited countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Fury of the Horde
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Show and Tell
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Man No More
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Worn Powerstone