Saruman, the White Hand by user4841374

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis amass deck built around Saruman, the White Hand, who converts every noncreature spell into Army growth. The plan is to chain instants, sorceries, enchantments, and artifacts - each one amassing Orcs onto a single Army token - then protect that Army with the commander's ward {2} and swing for lethal with trample from Orcish Siegemaster or menace from Great Ugly-Looking Goblin and Along the Crooked Way. Secondary damage comes from drain engines Mirkwood Bats, Guttersnipe, and Fiery Inscription, plus independent dragon threats like Smaug the Magnificent and Cavern-Hoard Dragon. The deck also packs theft effects (Subjugate the Hobbits, Grishnakh, Brash Instigator) and graveyard recursion (Reanimate, Rise of the Dark Realms, a flashback package). It is a midrange value deck that wins through incremental Army growth and combat - there are no infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Along the Crooked Way
• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Bolg's Company
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consider
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 1 Goblin Plate Mail
• 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Inferno Titan
• 6 Island
• 1 Languish
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 7 Mountain
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Ravening Warg
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Rhovanion Rampager
• 1 Riddles in the Dark
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Snowslope Hunter
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 7 Swamp
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 Thranduil's Decree
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Tidings of War
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Worn Powerstone