Sauron, The Dark Lord by jowen2201

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Grixis deck harnesses Sauron, the Dark Lord to generate relentless board presence, card draw, and graveyard fuel. By amassing an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells and triggering the Ring Temptation through combat damage or Nazgul, the deck cycles rapidly through its library. Early turns focus on mana acceleration and tutoring game pieces into the hand or graveyard. The primary path to victory involves mass reanimation through Living Death or big-mana finishers like Torment of Hailfire. Secondary win conditions include looping mana and permanents with Hullbreaker Horror, burning the table with Bloodchief Ascension and The Master of Lake-town, or draining opponents with Peer into the Abyss.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defile
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 2 Island
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mount Doom
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Mox Amber
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Volrath's Stronghold
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
• 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge