Saruman ChatGPT #1 by Slejvoo

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman, the White Hand

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This is a thematic Grixis spells deck built around Saruman, the White Hand. Its noncreature spells both advance the Army and provide a large interaction package. Early rocks, rituals, and cost reducers can cast Saruman ahead of curve, while cantrips and selection spells help find lands, protection, and payoff cards. The usual operational state appears around turn 5, when Saruman and a cheap spell produce the first Army counter. The deck can create a serious attack around turn 7 with Assault on Osgiliath, but that attack normally threatens one opponent rather than the whole table. The list has strong single-target interaction and some protection, but it lacks a dependable compact win, sustained lock, or reliable evasion. Dualcaster Mage plus Electroduplicate makes an infinite token loop, but it needs a third payoff such as Altar of the Brood to win. Overall, the deck is functional casual-to-high-power midrange, with its main weaknesses being finish reliability and exposure to creature removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aether Hub
• 1 Altar of the Brood
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault on Osgiliath
• 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Borne Upon a Wind
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Desperate Ritual
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Displace
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dress Down
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Electroduplicate
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Far // Away
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Flame of Anor
• 1 Forbidden Alchemy
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Grixis Charm
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 6 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Lazotep Plating
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mana Leak
• 1 March from the Black Gate
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Mind Stone
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nightscape Familiar
• 1 Opt
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Prismari Command
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rise // Fall
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Saruman's Trickery
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Scorched Geyser
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wizard's Staff