Nazgul by TonsOfFun1987

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir spellslinger-Wraith tribal deck helmed by Lord of the Nazgul. The core plan is to resolve the commander and then chain cheap instants and sorceries-cantrips, interaction, and rituals-to flood the board with 3/3 menace Wraith tokens. Once nine or more Wraiths are present, the commander's pump turns the entire army into 9/9s for a decisive combat finish. The nine Nazgul copies, Ring-temptation payoffs, and clone suite (Spark Double, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, Roaming Throne) amplify token production and counters. Secondary paths include one-sided wipes via Raise the Palisade, evasion from Wonder or Akroma's Memorial, and value engines such as Kindred Discovery and Archmage Emeritus. The deck wins through overwhelming combat rather than infinite combos, leveraging a dense instant-speed interaction suite to protect its window.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Wonder