Saurman serves the Darkside by Techfire80

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis spellslinger and midrange strategy helmed by Saruman, the White Hand. The primary objective is to cast Saruman early using efficient mana artifacts and rituals, then chain noncreature spells to amass a massive, evasive Orc Army. Every instant, sorcery, artifact, and enchantment cast triggers Saruman to place +1/+1 counters on the Army while giving it built-in ward {2}. The deck supports this tall-creature beatdown with high-impact payoffs like Chandra's Ignition, All Will Be One, and Isengard Unleashed, which can turn a large Army into table-wide lethal damage. It features format-ceiling reactive protection and disruption, including free spells like Deflecting Swat, Fierce Guardianship, Deadly Rollick, and Force of Will, alongside premium card draw from The One Ring and Rhystic Study. While vulnerable to mass exile and bounce sweepers, the deck leverages The Ozolith and command-zone redundancy to reliably rebuild and close the game by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Ancestral Anger
  • 1 Angrath, Captain of Chaos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commence the Endgame
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deduce
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Invade the City
  • 1 Isengard Unleashed
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Widespread Brutality