You Have Elected The Way Of ... Pain! 2 by PoloND

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a control-mill Esper deck built around Saruman of Many Colors as a repeatable engine. On your second spell each turn, each opponent mills two cards and you can cast a free copy of an instant, sorcery, or enchantment milled with equal or lower mana value, letting you chain value and kill via library. The deck leans heavily on cheap cantrips and counterspell protection to keep up the second-spell rhythm, accelerates with Solary-class rituals and rocks, and virtually bursts through heavy ransom card sets. The true finish is not 40 damage but the milling engine, pushed over the top by Bruvac and The Water Crystal. It plays like a midrange control deck first, a one-shot 'mill combo' deck second, with distributed breaker steals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Eddie the Judge
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wizard's Staff