Esper Mill Theft by PoketheDestroyer

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Saruman of Many Colors leads an Esper second-spell deck that mills opponents and steals instants/sorceries from their graveyards. The deck's main loop is to cast a cheap first spell, then a second spell that draws, makes treasure, copies itself, and triggers Saruman's mill-and-copy ability. Bruvac the Grandiloquent acts as a hidden commander for the mill-doubling plan. The primary kill is the Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank loop, started by any milling trigger such as Saruman's own trigger or Fractured Sanity; the backup is Bruvac doubling a kicked Maddening Cacophony to remove whole libraries. Control elements protect the setup until the loop resolves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monk Class
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff