Ring of wraiths by gameshow349

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir spellslinger and tribal swarm strategy centered on Lord of the Nazgûl. The game plan focuses on deploying the commander on Turn 4 or 5 and casting dense strings of low-cost instants and sorceries to build a lethal army of 3/3 menace Wraith tokens. The list features exceptional redundancy by running nine copies of Nazgûl, allowing consistent Ring temptation triggers that continuously distribute +1/+1 counters across all Wraiths. Cheap cantrips like Opt, Preordain, and Birthday Escape serve double duty as velocity engines and token generators. The deck protects its commander using efficient interaction such as Fierce Guardianship, Force of Negation, and Mithril Coat. Once the board achieves critical mass or crosses the threshold of nine Wraiths, the army transforms into 9/9 attackers to overwhelm opponents through combat damage. With backup token makers like Sedgemoor Witch and Talrand, Sky Summoner, the deck maintains steady pressure even under disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ancestral Vision
  • 1 Aphotic Wisps
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bog Wraith
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canoptek Wraith
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cremate
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hithlain Knots
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Retraced Image
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Suspend
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin