Sauron by user4746331

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord is a single-faced commander whose main job is to turn Ring tempts into a discard-hand/draw-four engine while Amass Orcs builds an Army. The deck is a midrange battlecruiser: ramp to seven mana, keep Sauron protected, play the Ring-sagas and Nazgul/Wraith package, then win by combat with a big Army, evasive Wraiths, or Scourge of the Throne extra combat. Saruman, the White Hand is the hidden commander, amplifying noncreature spells into Amass and giving Orcs ward. Secondary paths are treasure/value from There and Back Again, Cavern-Hoard Dragon, and reanimation from Sauron, Lord of the Rings/the Necromancer. No infinite combo; games end through repeated lethal attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 7 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge
  • 1 Worn Powerstone