Prism of Unyielding Power by KotaMori

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and mill-theft strategy commanded by Saruman of Many Colors. It leverages early card-advantage engines like Esper Sentinel, Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, and Trouble in Pairs to build a solid mana base while disrupting opposing development with efficient countermagic and spot removal. In the mid-game, it establishes Saruman or big-mana theft engines to mill opponents and cast their best instant, sorcery, and enchantment spells for free whenever you double-cast. The deck transitions to a lethal finish around Turn 6 by resolving game-warping mass reanimation and mill spells such as Breach the Multiverse, Rise of the Dark Realms, and kicked Maddening Cacophony, turning opponents' graveyards into an overwhelming combat force. Additionally, it contains the compact two-card combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank as an alternate instant-win condition, backed by extra-turn spells to secure decisive victories.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Performance
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karn's Temporal Sundering
  • 1 Lapse of Certainty
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Nita, Forum Conciliator
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Part the Waterveil
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelltwine
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Submerge
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign