Saruman by MeliodasIlI13

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Saruman, the White Hand is a Grixis amass engine: every noncreature spell adds +1/+1 counters to a growing Orc Army while giving Goblins and Orcs ward. The deck backs this with instant/sorcery payoffs, recursive amass effects, and a handful of counters/removal, then closes games by making the Army hasty, evasive, or trampling with Frostcliff Siege and Book of Mazarbul. Saruman the White in the 99 provides a backup amass trigger. There is no infinite combo; the plan is incremental amass into a large combat threat. Keeping the commander on board speeds up every noncreature spell, so commander protection and sequencing around the one Army token are critical.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Locket
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Easterling Vanguard
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Locket
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhovanion Rampager
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Warbeast of Gorgoroth
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Xander's Lounge