Sauron by user4847467
Format: Commander
Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord
Bracket: 4
Deck overview
Sauron, the Dark Lord leads a midrange control and token-aggro strategy that leverages the amass Orcs mechanic alongside Ring-temptation card filtering. Sauron acts as both a massive battlefield threat and an explosive card-advantage engine, punishing opponents' spellcasting by creating large Armies and wheeling into fresh hands upon combat damage. The primary win condition revolves around building an unblockable, lethal Army or commander, augmented by evasion equipment and static anthems like Mauhur, Uruk-hai Captain and Orcish Siegemaster. Secondary win lines include burn damage from All Will Be One triggers, broad combat pressure with flying and haste from Wonder and Anger, and commander damage.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 All Will Be One
- 1 Anger
- 1 Arcane Denial
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Barad-dûr
- 1 Black Market Connections
- 1 Blasphemous Act
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Brotherhood Regalia
- 1 Call of the Ring
- 1 Chaos Warp
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Corsairs of Umbar
- 1 Crumbling Necropolis
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Dimir Signet
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Enter the God-Eternals
- 1 Eternal Skylord
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Feed the Swarm
- 1 Fierce Guardianship
- 1 Foray of Orcs
- 1 Gleaming Overseer
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
- 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
- 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
- 4 Island
- 1 Lazotep Plating
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Luxury Suite
- 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
- 1 Mana Drain
- 1 Mana Vault
- 1 March from the Black Gate
- 1 Mask of Griselbrand
- 1 Mask of Riddles
- 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
- 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
- 1 Mindless Conscription
- 1 Mount Doom
- 4 Mountain
- 3 Nazgûl
- 1 Nim Deathmantle
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Orcish Medicine
- 1 Orcish Siegemaster
- 1 Phial of Galadriel
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Rakdos Signet
- 1 Reanimate
- 1 Relic of Sauron
- 1 Ringsight
- 1 Rivendell
- 1 Rogue's Passage
- 1 Saruman the White
- 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 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Slip Out the Back
- 1 Smoldering Marsh
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 3 Swamp
- 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
- 1 The Black Gate
- 1 The Mouth of Sauron
- 1 The One Ring
- 1 The Reaver Cleaver
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Trailblazer's Boots
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Warg Rider
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Whispersilk Cloak
- 1 Witch-king of Angmar
- 1 Wonder
- 1 Worn Powerstone
- 1 Xander's Lounge