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Saruman of Exactly 3 Colors
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Est deck cost: $648.38
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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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Land

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cmm) 985
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (plst) C18-238
Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju enters tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (ltc) 359
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. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (ltc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (ltc) 301
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (pip) 260
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (otc) 290
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (ltc) 314
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 (ltr) 274
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dmr) 249
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (ltr) 713
Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (ltc) 323
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Shineshadow Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shineshadow Snarl (lcc) 351
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (ltc) 335
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ltr) 276
Temple of Silence

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.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (m21) 255
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 (ltc) 337
Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667

Land

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Removal

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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 (ltc) 184
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (brb) 15
Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Instant
Countersquall (con) 103
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
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 (sld) 270
Hunted by The Family

Choose up to four target creatures you don't control. For each of them, that creature's controller faces a villainous choice — That creature becomes a 1/1 white Human creature and loses all abilities, or you create a token that's a copy of it.

Sorcery
Hunted by The Family (who) 46
Nightmare Unmaking

Choose one — • Exile each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand. • Exile each creature with power less than the number of cards in your hand.

Sorcery
Nightmare Unmaking (c19) 20
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Overwhelming Splendor

Enchant player Creatures enchanted player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1. Enchanted player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities or loyalty abilities.

Enchantment
Overwhelming Splendor (hou) 19
Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Render Silent (dgm) 96
Saruman's Trickery

Counter target spell. Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter 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.)

Instant
Saruman's Trickery (ltr) 68
Seal of Cleansing

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Seal of Cleansing (nem) 18
Seal of Removal

Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Seal of Removal (nem) 42
Shay Cormac

{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof, indestructible, protection, shroud, and ward until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, put a bounty counter on that creature. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Shay Cormac.

Creature
Shay Cormac (acr) 65
Subjugate the Hobbits

Gain control of each noncommander creature with mana value 3 or less.

Sorcery
Subjugate the Hobbits (ltc) 24
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (snc) 66

Removal

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Copy

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See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (pmom) 77s
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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Mill

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Fraying Sanity

Enchant player At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Enchantment
Fraying Sanity (pip) 175

Mill

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Stax

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Baird, Steward of Argive

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Creature
Baird, Steward of Argive (plst) DOM-4
Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c16) 59
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (plst) MMA-176
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (tmp) 80
Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire

Activated abilities of lands your opponents control can't be activated unless they're mana abilities. Sharkey has all activated abilities of lands your opponents control except mana abilities. Mana of any type can be spent to activate Sharkey's abilities.

Creature
Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire (ltr) 229
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 342
Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery. +1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. −3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Time Raveler (blc) 92

Stax

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Drain

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Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Creature
Disciple of the Vault (mrd) 62
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor (otj) 211
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179

Drain

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Protection

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Divert

Change the target of target spell with a single target unless that spell's controller pays {2}.

Instant
Divert (ody) 82
Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Silence (sld) 1445

Protection

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Theft

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Commandeer

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

Instant
Commandeer (plst) CSP-29
Gonti, Night Minister

Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.

Creature
Gonti, Night Minister (dft) 357
Gríma, Saruman's Footman

Gríma can't be blocked. Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player 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 that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Gríma, Saruman's Footman (ltc) 57
Hostage Taker

When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. 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
Hostage Taker (ltc) 268
Synthesis Pod

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) {1}{U/P}, {T}, Exile a spell you control: Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card with mana value equal to 1 plus the exiled spell's mana value. Exile that card, then that player shuffles. You may cast that exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Synthesis Pod (onc) 33

Theft

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Draw

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Archivist of Oghma

Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (2xm) 44
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Gandalf, Friend of the Shire

Flash You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.

Creature
Gandalf, Friend of the Shire (ltr) 308
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (cmm) 42
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 420
Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (war) 61
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
Obsessive Search

Draw a card. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Obsessive Search (dmr) 61
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (fdn) 512
Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Artifact
Palantír of Orthanc (ltr) 698
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (ltc) 196
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45

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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 (ltc) 273
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (mul) 8
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play historic lands and cast historic spells from the top of your library. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass (acr) 15
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Flash Menace When Lobelia enters, exile target creature card from an opponent's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, then create X Treasure tokens, where X is the exiled card's power.

Creature
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (ltr) 93
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff (ltr) 213
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (ltc) 286
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (ltc) 287
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (ltc) 293

Ramp

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105

Tutor

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Finisher

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Temporal Trespass

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.

Sorcery
Temporal Trespass (acr) 86

Finisher

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Recursion

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Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Extract from Darkness (ltc) 266

Recursion

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 15 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
50 pips - 38 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
21 pips - 18 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 8 cards
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