The Hosts of Mordor by itsjanktime

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Saruman, the White Hand leads a spellslinger and graveyard-focused amass deck that wins through massive combat damage and burn. Casting noncreature spells steadily builds a massive Orc Army token with built-in ward protection. The primary game plan converts this army into lethal swings using evasion pieces like Corsairs of Umbar, Rogue's Passage, and The Black Gate, amplified by Orcish Siegemaster or Bulk Up. Secondary win conditions include token swarms from Lord of the Nazgul, passive burn from Fiery Inscription and Guttersnipe, or reanimation blowouts via Living Death and Sauron, Lord of the Rings.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abnormal Endurance
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
• 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
• 1 Bitter Downfall
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
• 1 Bulk Up
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Confusticate and Bebother
• 1 Consider
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Forbidden Alchemy
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
• 1 Goblin Cratermaker
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Goblin Plate Mail
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1 Inferno Titan
• 6 Island
• 1 Lidless Gaze
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Misty Mountains Raider
• 1 Molten-Core Maestro
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Revenge of Ravens
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Surrounded by Orcs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Tidings of War
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Wizard's Staff