Saruman by SemIdeia

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control strategy built around Saruman of Many Colors. It leverages low-cost cantrips and interaction to consistently trigger Saruman's ability, which fires whenever you cast your second spell each turn. By doing so, it mills each opponent and casts relevant instant, sorcery, or enchantment cards directly out of their graveyards for free. The mana base and acceleration suite focus on 2-mana artifacts to guarantee deployment of Saruman by Turn 5 or 6. Secondary payoffs like Archmage Emeritus, The Council of Four, and Aligned Heart ensure card flow and battlefield presence while double-spelling. Rather than relying on fast infinite combos, the deck controls the table through targeted removal, flexible counterspells, and board wipes, eventually closing out the game by milling opposing libraries with Consuming Aberration, Kitsune's Technique, and Singularity Rupture or attacking with evasive token swarms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A Little Chat
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aligned Heart
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Focus the Mind
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 King Narfi's Betrayal
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorcerous Squall
  • 1 Sound the Trumpets
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunstar Lightsmith
  • 1 Supreme Will
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Wizard's Staff