The Evil Wizard by MorpheusComplex

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Saruman, the White Hand leads a Grixis control-combo deck that wins without combat. The main plan is a life-drain loop where Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror pairs with Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose - any life loss then drains the table infinitely. A second path doubles life loss with Archfiend of Despair, Wound Reflection, or Warlock Class plus half-life effects like Peer into the Abyss, Blood Tribute, Pox Plague, and Unstoppable Slasher. A third path mills opponents with Bruvac the Grandiloquent plus Cut Your Losses, Singularity Rupture, or Maddening Cacophony. Saruman is not a combo piece; he builds a growing Orc Army and gives your Goblins and Orcs ward 2 while you tutor and control the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggression
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Tribute
  • 1 Bloodcrusher of Khorne
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Combat Research
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crash Through
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fists of Flame
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Impolite Entrance
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Might of the Meek
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wound Reflection