sauronne by user7985322

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a thematic Grixis midrange and reanimator strategy helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It leverages the Ring tempts mechanic, nine copies of Nazgûl, and an extensive reanimation package to overwhelm opponents through combat. In the early game, the deck establishes mana with artifacts and stocks the graveyard using cards like Entomb and Faithless Looting. Once Sauron enters the battlefield, he generates an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells and protects himself with a punishing Ward ability. Combat connections trigger Ring temptation, allowing you to discard small hands to draw four fresh cards. This card velocity fuels explosive reanimation turns featuring Living Death, Rise of the Dark Realms, or Lord of the Nazgûl. While vulnerable to mass graveyard exile and enchantment-based locks, the deck maintains high resilience through redundant threats and efficient board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Breaking of the Fellowship
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 5 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge
  • 1 Zombify