Saruman • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Saruman, the White Hand

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, amass Orcs X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Goblins and Orcs you control have ward

Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar

$2.79 $0.77 $0.57

Commander

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Embercleave

Flash
This spell costs

less to cast for each attacking creature you control.
When Embercleave enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $10.77 $8.83

Glamdring, Foe-hammer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast, where X is equipped creature's power.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death (hob) 174

$0.69 $0.61 $0.15

Resonating Lute

Lands you control have "

: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast instant and sorcery spells."

: Draw a card. Activate only if you have seven or more cards in your hand.

Artifact

$1.79 $1.09 $0.51

Tablet of Discovery

When this artifact enters, mill a card. You may play that card this turn. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

: Add

. Spend this mana only to cast instant and sorcery spells.

Artifact

$2.49 $0.79 $0.65

Wizard's Staff

Equipped creature has prowess. (Whenever its controller casts a noncreature spell, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If a triggered ability of equipped creature triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
Equip Wizard

Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $4.07 $2.90

Artifact

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Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$16.99 $10.32 $10.78

Copy

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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

$84.99 $55.54 $55.93

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant

$21.99 $10.51 $9.62

Counters

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Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$44.99 $32.83 $30.89

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $3.46 $2.81

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$79.99 $67.40 $67.73

Valakut Awakening

Put any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library, then draw that many cards plus one.

Instant

Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174

$29.99 $16.58 $15.93

Draw

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Uncover the Moon-Letters

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may draw X cards, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. If you do, discard two cards.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Enchantment

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Flashback

Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$4.99 $2.88 $2.40

Glen Elendra's Answer

This spell can't be countered.
Counter all spells your opponents control and all abilities your opponents control. Create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying for each spell and ability countered this way.

Instant

$1.49 $0.69 $0.15

Mana Sculpt

Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of

equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.

Instant

$1.99 $0.74 $0.23

Redirect Lightning

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay

.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant - Lesson

$17.99 $11.15 $10.89

Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Instant

$4.99 $3.45 $2.17

Instant

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Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.38 $0.26

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.69 $0.10 $0.15

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.31 $0.27

Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.29

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.62 $0.50

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$1.79 $0.76 $0.39

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.39 $0.20

Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.23 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.29 $1.02 $0.46

Smoldering Marsh

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.69 $0.32 $0.18

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$4.99 $2.61 $2.32

Strip Mine

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land

$19.99 $19.22 $10.77

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.27 $0.18

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.79 $3.83 $1.45

Sunken Hollow

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$0.59 $0.37 $0.26

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

: Add

: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Legendary Land - Gate

$11.99 $9.99 $9.61

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.29 $1.56 $0.81

Land

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Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant

$94.99 $73.65 $73.98

High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature - Wizard Faerie

$6.49 $4.35 $3.11

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment

$6.49 $4.68 $4.51

Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+

— Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant

$1.49 $0.98 $0.50

Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Spellskite

: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$10.99 $7.58 $6.87

Turn Aside

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Instant

$0.35 $0.36 $0.16

Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact

$15.99 $14.99 $10.52

Protection

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Bulk Up

Double target creature's power until end of turn.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Leyline Axe

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$7.49 $3.88 $3.86

Pump

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.68 $0.36

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.49 $1.00 $0.39

Izzet Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.44 $0.36

Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add

for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery

$49.99 $41.64 $39.35

Mana Geyser

Add

for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.02 $1.02

Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact - Thopter

$0.79 $0.41 $0.29

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $3.97 $1.35

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.09 $1.43

Talisman of Creativity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.79 $1.80 $0.69

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.99 $0.83 $0.42

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.29 $0.88 $0.70

The Reaver Cleaver

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, create that many Treasure tokens."
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$21.99 $23.84 $23.15

Ramp

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Inspiration from Beyond

Mill three cards, then return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Summons of Saruman

Amass Orcs X. Mill X cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. (To amass Orcs X, put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Flashback—

, Exile X cards from your graveyard.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.39 $0.31

Recursion

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$4.49 $2.10 $1.88

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.11 $0.87

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.10 $2.37

Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$39.99 $38.41 $37.51

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$37.99 $27.12 $27.11

Earthquake

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.63 $0.34

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$79.99 $64.23 $62.94

Flame of Anor

Choose one. If you control a Wizard as you cast this spell, you may choose two instead.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Flame of Anor deals 5 damage to target creature.

Instant

$4.49 $2.39 $1.97

Fling

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.

Instant

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.38 $0.20

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$0.79 $0.94 $0.50

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$4.49 $2.81 $2.19

Shatterskull Smashing

Shatterskull Smashing deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, Shatterskull Smashing deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.

Sorcery

Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass (znr) 161

$10.99 $7.32 $7.21

Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$2.49 $1.81 $1.29

Sundering Eruption

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Sorcery

Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248

$3.99 $0.93 $0.92

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $11.73 $11.25

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.37 $1.27

Removal

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Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery

$9.49 $5.72 $4.42

Improvisation Capstone

Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater. You may cast any number of spells from among them without paying their mana costs.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)

Sorcery - Lesson

$13.99 $9.86 $10.67

Sorcery

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Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery

$17.99 $14.97 $11.46

Theft

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $899.00

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 197.00

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0 mana - 7 cards

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38 pips - 27 cards

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30 mana - 29 cards

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8 pips - 6 cards

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26 mana - 25 cards

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31 pips - 23 cards

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33 mana - 30 cards

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10 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 197.00

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