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Saruman the Gay
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Est deck cost: $654.18
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Commander

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Saruman of Many Colors

Ward—Discard an enchantment, instant, or sorcery card. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, each opponent mills two cards. When one or more cards are milled this way, exile target enchantment, instant, or sorcery card with equal or lesser mana value than that spell from an opponent's graveyard. Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Saruman of Many Colors (ltr) 223

Commander

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Discard

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Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66

Discard

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Mill

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Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Instant
Archive Trap (plst) ZEN-41
Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Court of Cunning

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment
Court of Cunning (cmr) 63
Cruel Somnophage

Creature
Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up (woe) 222
Cut Your Losses

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Cut Your Losses (snc) 38
Glimpse the Unthinkable

Target player mills ten cards.

Sorcery
Glimpse the Unthinkable (2x2) 218
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Startled Awake

Sorcery
Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare (soi) 88Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare (soi) 88
The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard. {2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

Creature
The Ancient One (lci) 222

Mill

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Theft

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Chaos Wand

{4}, {T}: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of that library in a random order.

Artifact
Chaos Wand (otc) 254
Elder Brain

Menace Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Creature
Elder Brain (clb) 125
Mnemonic Betrayal

Exile all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards. Exile Mnemonic Betrayal.

Sorcery
Mnemonic Betrayal (grn) 189
Thief of Sanity

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Thief of Sanity (otc) 243
Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.) Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (ncc) 359

Theft

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Burn

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Temporal Mastery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery. Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Temporal Mastery (inr) 90

Burn

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Draw

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (otc) 90
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Chimil, the Inner Sun

Spells you control can't be countered. At the beginning of your end step, discover 5. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Artifact
Chimil, the Inner Sun (lci) 249
Cunning Rhetoric

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Enchantment
Cunning Rhetoric (otc) 129
Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way. +2: Draw a card, then scry 2. −3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value. Elminster can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Elminster (clb) 274
Inspiring Refrain

Draw two cards. Exile Inspiring Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Inspiring Refrain (who) 216
Isperia, Supreme Judge

Flying Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

Creature
Isperia, Supreme Judge (c20) 217
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (ltc) 270
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Scroll Rack (cmr) 337
Secret Rendezvous

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Sorcery
Secret Rendezvous (blc) 152
Tasha, the Witch Queen

Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token. +1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it. −3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost. Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Tasha, the Witch Queen (clb) 294
The Temporal Anchor

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2. Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

Artifact
The Temporal Anchor (bro) 82
Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Visions of Beyond (uma) 81
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

Draw

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Protection

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (lcc) 125

Protection

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Tokens

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Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (otc) 116

Tokens

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Clones

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Sakashima the Impostor

You may have Sakashima the Impostor enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its name is Sakashima the Impostor, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has "{2}{U}{U}: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."

Creature
Sakashima the Impostor (plst) SOK-53

Clones

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Infect

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Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {B}: Skithiryx gains haste until end of turn. {B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

Creature
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon (plst) SOM-79

Infect

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Armillary Sphere (cmr) 298
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Monologue Tax (dsc) 100
Rasputin, the Oneiromancer

When Rasputin enters, put a dream counter on it for each opponent you have. Each opponent creates a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. {T}, Remove one or more dream counters from Rasputin: Add that much {C}. {T}, Remove a dream counter from Rasputin: Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with protection from red.

Creature
Rasputin, the Oneiromancer (dmc) 40
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Thran Dynamo

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (blc) 290
Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Flying, ward {3} Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token. While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Creature
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10

Ramp

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Copy

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Complete the Circuit

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) You may cast sorcery spells this turn as though they had flash. When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Instant
Complete the Circuit (mom) 52
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities. The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (cmr) 89
Storm of Saruman

Ward {3} Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Storm of Saruman (ltr) 72

Copy

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (drc) 146
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (drc) 148
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (otc) 282
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (drc) 154
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 280
Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Mage-Ring Network (cmm) 1009
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (drc) 164
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 278
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (drc) 174
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (drc) 179
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Waterfront District

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterfront District (snc) 259
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

Land

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Recursion

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Halo Forager

Flying When this creature enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value X from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Halo Forager (woc) 139
Havengul Lich

{1}: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, this creature gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Creature
Havengul Lich (scd) 231
Obscura Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1. • Target creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.) • Target player returns a creature card from their graveyard to their hand.

Instant
Obscura Confluence (ncc) 76
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Spellweaver Volute

Enchant instant card in a graveyard Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach this Aura to another instant card in a graveyard.

Enchantment
Spellweaver Volute (plst) FUT-59

Recursion

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Counters

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Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50

Counters

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Lifegain

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Phyrexian Fleshgorger

Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Menace, lifelink Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Fleshgorger (bro) 121

Lifegain

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer

Dakkon enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control. +1: Surveil 2. −3: Exile target creature. −6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer (mh2) 192
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Mass Diminish

Until your next turn, creatures target player controls have base power and toughness 1/1. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mass Diminish (c19) 10
Serendib Sorcerer

{T}: Target creature other than this creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Creature
Serendib Sorcerer (plst) PLC-61
Sorceress Queen

{T}: Target creature other than this creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Creature
Sorceress Queen (5ed) 194
Stone of Erech

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Artifact
Stone of Erech (ltr) 251
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211
Suspend

Exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Suspend (mh2) 68
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Time Wipe (dsc) 237
Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control. Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them. Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token. {U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Creature
Toxrill, the Corrosive (vow) 132
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (brc) 131

Removal

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Deck Info

Deck stats

18 pips - 14 cards
17 mana - 16 cards
59 pips - 42 cards
17 mana - 16 cards
32 pips - 26 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 7 cards
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