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{"ops":[{"insert":"Spellslinging Saruman. The deck aims to get Saruman out on turn 3, then ramp up with mana rocks and card advantage all while building the army. There are also lots of ways to get free casts of spells, which furthers the value train and the Army pumping. Once the Army is massive we try to finish the game with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chandra's Ignition"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soul's Fire"}},{"insert":" like effects, either to do lethal noncombat damage to face, or to wipe the board of all other creatures then swing in with the army to finish.\n\nSecondary win con is just token swarm with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Metallurgic Summonings"}},{"insert":" like effects or using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thor, God of Thunder"}},{"insert":" . This deck does have a decent amount of ramp, so getting Saruman back out is not a huge concern if he's removed.\n\nThere is intentionally no trample, double strike, or other buff effects in this deck. The Army is a metaphor (for me being able to kill you with 40 noncombat damage to the face). \n\nThere is a base amount of healthy removal option in the deck, but normally we are focused on being the threat and forcing the win ourselves. It's really not hard to make the Army huge with little lead up. Usually counterspells are saved to protect our big play, not to hinder opponents development.\n\nThere is also a decent amount of graveyard recursion/synergy, which helps us keep steam as the game goes on. \n"}]}
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
Saruman, the White Hand (ltc) 8

Commander

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Essence Harvest
Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
Gravitic Punch
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
Sorcery
Gravitic Punch (plst) GRN-105
Pain for All
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, enchanted creature deals damage equal to its power to any other target.
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to each opponent.
Enchantment - Aura
Pain for All (eoe) 151
Soul's Fire
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Instant
Soul's Fire (cmr) 200

Army go brrr

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Black Sun's Zenith
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (ecc) 71
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (msc) 161

Board Wipes

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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
Arcane Denial (msc) 147
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Instant
Countersquall (plst) DDH-59
Ionize
Counter target spell. Ionize deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.
Instant
Ionize (grn) 179
Long River's Pull
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.
Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (tmt) 47

Counterspells

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Thor, God of Thunder
Flying
When Thor enters, exile target Equipment, instant, or sorcery card from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Thor deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.
Legendary Creature - Warrior God Hero
Thor, God of Thunder (msh) 156

Creature

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Bitter Revelation
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Bitter Revelation (cmr) 109
Blood Price
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Blood Price (j22) 379
Commune with Evil
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain 3 life.
Sorcery
Commune with Evil (dsk) 87
Discerning Taste
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creature cards put into your graveyard this way.
Sorcery
Discerning Taste (mh2) 82
Forbidden Alchemy
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Forbidden Alchemy (tdc) 152
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tle) 159
Hostile Negotiations
Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Hostile Negotiations (bro) 105
Riddles in the Dark
Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Instant
Riddles in the Dark (hob) 53

Draw

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Abstract Performance
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Sorcery
Abstract Performance (soc) 17
Aminatou's Augury
Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Until end of turn, for each nonland card type, you may cast a spell of that type from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Aminatou's Augury (dsc) 71
Decorum Dissertation
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
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
Decorum Dissertation (sos) 78
Epic Experiment
Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Epic Experiment (otc) 222
Great Intelligence's Plan
Draw three cards. Then target opponent faces a villainous choice — They discard three cards, or you may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Great Intelligence's Plan (who) 133
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
Improvisation Capstone (sos) 120
Recurring Insight
Draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Recurring Insight (msc) 154
Sins of the Past
Until end of turn, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Exile Sins of the Past.
Sorcery
Sins of the Past (rav) 106
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
Summons of Saruman (ltc) 70

Free Cast Triggers/Value

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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
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (msc) 229
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 233
Contaminated Aquifer
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Contaminated Aquifer (fic) 383
Crumbling Necropolis
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Crumbling Necropolis (msc) 237
Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (msc) 238
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (msc) 239
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (msc) 241
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
or
.
Land
Foreboding Ruins (msc) 244
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
or
.
Land
Frostboil Snarl (msc) 246
Geothermal Bog
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Geothermal Bog (fic) 399
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (msh) 289
Molten Tributary
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Island Mountain
Molten Tributary (soc) 387
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (msh) 293
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Shivan Reef
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Shivan Reef (soc) 404
Sulfur Falls
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sulfur Falls (msc) 269
Sulfurous Springs
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Sulfurous Springs (eoc) 185
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (msh) 291
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303
Tainted Peak
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Peak (dsc) 304
Temple of Deceit
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Temple of Epiphany
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Epiphany (soc) 412
Temple of Malice
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Malice (fdn) 701
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (fic) 439

Land

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Call Forth the Tempest
Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then do it again.)
Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.
Sorcery
Call Forth the Tempest (ltc) 509
Chandra's Ignition
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.
Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (m3c) 209
Soul Immolation
As an additional cost to cast this spell, blight X. X can't be greater than the greatest toughness among creatures you control. (Put X -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
Soul Immolation deals X damage to each opponent and each creature they control.
Sorcery
Soul Immolation (ecl) 156
Waltz of Rage
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature. Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.
Sorcery
Waltz of Rage (dsk) 165

One sided wipes

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Curator's Ward
Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent has hexproof.
When enchanted permanent leaves the battlefield, if it was historic, draw two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Enchantment - Aura
Curator's Ward (dom) 49
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (msc) 202
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (msc) 216

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (msc) 191
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (msc) 285
Izzet Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Izzet Signet (tdc) 320
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (soc) 352
Rakdos Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 211
Talisman of Creativity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (msc) 218
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (msc) 219
Talisman of Indulgence
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (msc) 220
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (msc) 222

Ramp

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Mystic Retrieval
Return target 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
Mystic Retrieval (inr) 363
Sorceress's Schemes
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard or exiled card with flashback you own to your hand. Add
.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Sorceress's Schemes (fin) 159

Recursion

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Bedevil
Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.
Instant
Bedevil (msc) 182
Chaos Warp
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Instant
Chaos Warp (msc) 164
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (tle) 257
Rakdos Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Instant
Rakdos Charm (eoc) 125
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (msc) 162

Removal

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Gilded Lotus
: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Gilded Lotus (msc) 199
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
Relic of Sauron
: Add two mana in any combination of
,
, and/or
.
,
: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Artifact
Relic of Sauron (ltc) 79
The Eternity Elevator
: Add
.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
20+ |
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on The Eternity Elevator.
Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft
The Eternity Elevator (eoe) 241
Thran Dynamo
: Add
.
Artifact
Thran Dynamo (msc) 290

Super Ramp

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Chrome Host Seedshark
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "
: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Creature - Phyrexian Shark
Chrome Host Seedshark (eoc) 68
Metallurgic Summonings
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.
Enchantment
Metallurgic Summonings (c21) 122
Shark Typhoon
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
Enchantment
Shark Typhoon (dsc) 127

Tokens

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Army of the Damned
Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Army of the Damned (j25) 399
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (msc) 155
Blasphemous Act
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (msc) 163
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Dig Through Time (soc) 195
Ghoulcaller Gisa
,
, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Ghoulcaller Gisa (cmm) 161
Muse Vortex
Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled instant and sorcery cards that weren't cast this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Sorcery
Muse Vortex (c21) 28
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Requiem Monolith
: Until end of turn, target creature gains "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you draw that many cards and lose that much life." That creature's controller may have this artifact deal 1 damage to it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Requiem Monolith (eoe) 113
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
Resonating Lute (sos) 221
Rise from the Tides
Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (inr) 366
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (soc) 205
Volcanic Salvo
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Volcanic Salvo deals 6 damage to each of up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers.
Sorcery
Volcanic Salvo (soc) 259

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
27 pips - 22 cards
30 mana - 28 cards
21 pips - 17 cards
31 mana - 29 cards
24 pips - 17 cards
31 mana - 29 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
19 mana - 14 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Spellslinging Saruman. The deck aims to get Saruman out on turn 3, then ramp up with mana rocks and card advantage all while building the army. There are also lots of ways to get free casts of spells, which furthers the value train and the Army pumping. Once the Army is massive we try to finish the game with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chandra's Ignition"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soul's Fire"}},{"insert":" like effects, either to do lethal noncombat damage to face, or to wipe the board of all other creatures then swing in with the army to finish.\n\nSecondary win con is just token swarm with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Metallurgic Summonings"}},{"insert":" like effects or using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thor, God of Thunder"}},{"insert":" . This deck does have a decent amount of ramp, so getting Saruman back out is not a huge concern if he's removed.\n\nThere is intentionally no trample, double strike, or other buff effects in this deck. The Army is a metaphor (for me being able to kill you with 40 noncombat damage to the face). \n\nThere is a base amount of healthy removal option in the deck, but normally we are focused on being the threat and forcing the win ourselves. It's really not hard to make the Army huge with little lead up. Usually counterspells are saved to protect our big play, not to hinder opponents development.\n\nThere is also a decent amount of graveyard recursion/synergy, which helps us keep steam as the game goes on. \n"}]}
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