Sauron Big Wheelie Style by GR_Logos

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Grixis deck operates as a potent wheel-based attrition and burn engine helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary strategy deploys asymmetric punishers such as Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, and Underworld Dreams, then resolves mass draw and discard spells like Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, and Dark Deal. Each wheel deals massive direct damage across the table while stripping opposing hands of curated answers. Sauron, the Dark Lord serves as an imposing, resilient secondary threat whose ward ability deters spot removal while generating large Orc Armies and filtering cards through Ring tempt triggers. Disruptive permanents like Teferi's Puzzle Box and Tergrid, God of Fright compound resource denial by stealing discarded cards and neutralizing hand sculpting. Supported by efficient interaction and board wipes like Cyclonic Rift and Blasphemous Act, the deck consistently closes games around Turn 7 through overwhelming life drain and massive combat swings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crosis's Catacombs
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magmakin Artillerist
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Over Matter
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nibelheim Aflame
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whirlpool Rider
  • 1 Whirlpool Warrior
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge