Saruman and Friends by user5770560

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Saruman, the White Hand leads a Grixis amass deck that converts noncreature spells into a single growing Army. The primary plan is to build one huge Army token through Saruman's triggers and amass enablers, then kill with Chandra's Ignition, Soul's Fire, or Gravitic Punch. Secondary paths are a goblin/orc swarm with Krenko, Ovika, and Empty the Warrens, plus recursion from Reanimate and Extract from Darkness. Saruman is the engine and gives Goblins and Orcs ward 2. Sauron, the Dark Lord acts as a hidden commander, amassing on opponent spells and turning Ring tempts into card draw. The deck is threat-dense but slow and heavily invested in a single Army token.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angrath, Captain of Chaos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Ashling's Command
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Bilbo's Burglaring
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Epic Downfall
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Lackey
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gravitic Punch
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Haunted Cloak
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 River's Rebuke
  • 1 Roaring Furnace // Steaming Sauna
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shagrat, Loot Bearer
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Worn Powerstone