Saruman v25 by daniel3375

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Helmed by Saruman of Many Colors, this is an Esper spellslinger deck that wins by converting every instant and sorcery into value. The commander's second-spell trigger mills each opponent and lets you exile an instant, sorcery, or enchantment from their graveyard to cast for free, turning the table's own spells into your resources. The 99 is a dense instant-speed control shell of counterspells and removal wrapped around a token engine: Talrand, Sky Summoner, Monastery Mentor, Murmuring Mystic, Metallurgic Summonings, and Shark Typhoon all turn casts into bodies, while Archmage Emeritus, Wavebreak Hippocamp, and The One Ring keep the gas flowing. The primary win is combat - a flying/prowess token swarm boosted by Storm of Saruman copies and Black Mage's Rod pings - with Metallurgic Summonings offering a late-game recursion engine to rebuild after wipes. It's a patient, grindy deck that out-values the table before drowning it in tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aligned Heart
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Moment of Truth
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Namor, Atlantean King
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Partition
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp