Saruman by Lastlion78

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Esper control deck leverages Saruman of Many Colors as a high-value engine while executing decisive mill-based win conditions. The primary game plan revolves around assembling Bruvac the Grandiloquent alongside half-library mill spells such as Maddening Cacophony, Cut Your Losses, Traumatize, or Singularity Rupture to instantly empty all opponents libraries. Secondary paths utilize heavy mill engines like Consuming Aberration, The Mindskinner, and Mindcrank to grind through decks while Saruman steals key instants, sorceries, and enchantments from opposing graveyards. Backed by potent stax pieces and efficient countermagic, the deck controls the tempo until it can safely resolve a game-ending mill combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave