Hosts of Mordor - Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTR\HOB Upgrades) by futondestroyer

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis "amass the Ring" midrange deck built around Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging the amass and Ring-tempt mechanics to grow a single Army token into a lethal threat. The commander doubles as a card-advantage engine-whenever the Ring tempts you, you may discard your hand to draw four-fueling a graveyard-focused subtheme with reanimation spells like Reanimate, Living Death, and Extract from Darkness. The deck wins primarily through combat, using Scourge of the Throne and The Balrog of Moria for extra combats, plus Lord of the Nazgul to turn instant/sorcery casts into a Wraith swarm. Secondary paths include Notion Thief with opponent draw punishment, and graveyard recursion of big threats like Sauron, Lord of the Rings. The commander's ward-sacrifice ability and the deck's heavy instant/sorcery density create a resilient value engine that grinds advantage while amassing a formidable board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 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 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Worn Powerstone