pokemon arceus vstar card 084/100 Colorless / 280 / Basic Pokémon card Arceus Vstar Trinity

Turn two you're forced to choose between playing your 2-drop and your commander, and then turn 3 you have to decide between whichever you didn't choose and whatever good 3-drops you may have access to

Lets have a look at two decks then: This is a combo deck without any combos

Saruman feels more like a twist on the Grixis (blue-black-red) spellslinger archetype, truly playing into a token army strategy using a massive X/X Orc Army to deal massive damage

The logic is this: your deck should be able to do things at every point in the game

I have seen it facilitate mill wins, I have seen it undo the work of a Vampiric Tutor, and I have seen it simply clear away a terrifying card that was revealed by a Courser of Kruphix