MTG Goldfish Sauron

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis reanimator strategy centered on using the graveyard as an extended resource pool. It leverages cheap looting, landcycling, and targeted tutors like Buried Alive to place high-impact creatures into the graveyard in the opening turns. On Turns 4–5, the deck deploys efficient reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Victimize to cheat massive threats like Sepulchral Primordial and The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield well ahead of curve. Graveyard incarnations like Anger and Wonder grant immediate haste and evasion to these threats, turning early board presence into lethal combat pressure. In the mid-to-late game, mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Breach the Multiverse act as both one-sided board wipes and overwhelming win conditions. While the commander, Sauron, Lord of the Rings, offers a powerful 8-mana top-end cast trigger, the core engine operates independently to establish board dominance and eliminate opponents within two combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Canoptek Tomb Sentinel
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Corpse Connoisseur
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Fiendbonder
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elvish Dreadlord
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 From the Catacombs
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Ghouls' Night Out
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Forsaken
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Primordial
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Quiet Speculation
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakshasa Debaser
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Visions of Ruin
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Worn Powerstone