mill by winniethekillr

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper midrange control strategy built around Saruman of Many Colors, focusing on symmetric mill, double-spell velocity, and graveyard theft. In the opening turns, the deck develops mana rocks and establishes passive deterrence like Blind Obedience and Propaganda to blunt opposing aggression. Once Saruman of Many Colors enters the battlefield on Turn 5, the deck leverages cheap cantrips and free interaction to trigger Saruman's ability, milling opponents and casting their most impactful instants, sorceries, and enchantments for free. In the mid-to-late game, engines such as Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Consuming Aberration, Mesmeric Orb, and The Mindskinner accelerate library depletion. The deck converts these full graveyards into a decisive victory around Turn 8 through a massive Rise of the Dark Realms, direct library milling with Singularity Rupture and Mind Grind, or overwhelming combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Quicken
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roads Go Ever, Ever On
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Uthros Psionicist
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer