Sarumanno spellslinger by lore123

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis spellslinger strategy centered around Saruman, the White Hand. The primary game plan focuses on deploying cost reducers and card-draw engines early, casting Saruman on Turn 4, and rapidly chaining noncreature spells to amass a massive Orc Army token. Saruman grants the Army ward {2}, giving it inherent resilience against casual spot removal. The deck converts this tall threat into a table-wide win using asymmetric burn spells such as Chandra's Ignition and Soul Immolation, amplified by damage multipliers like Isengard Unleashed and persistent burn sources such as Fiery Inscription and Guttersnipe. Unblockable utility lands like The Black Gate and Rogue's Passage ensure the Army connects for lethal combat damage. While the deck boasts robust mid-game card flow and flexible removal, its reliance on a single large creature token and natural card draws leaves it vulnerable to non-damage sweepers and targeted exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Glamdring
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Invade the City
  • 1 Isengard Unleashed
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Oblivion's Hunger
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // Will, Scholar of Frost
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Wizard's Staff