Sauron - Updated WIP by mpconley22

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis amass/tokens deck helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord, built around growing a single Army token into a lethal threat while Sauron converts the Ring-tempts trigger into a massive discard-hand-draw-four refill. The primary plan is combat inevitability: amass a huge Army, pump it with Necropolis Regent counters, and close with Scourge of the Throne extra combats or a 9/9 Wraith swarm from Lord of the Nazgul. A strong secondary axis steals opponents' creatures via Grishnakh, Brash Instigator, In the Darkness Bind Them, Subjugate the Hobbits, and Hostage Taker. The deck is a value midrange build with a solid recursion package (Reanimate, Living Death, The Soul Stone) and no true infinite combos - it wins by out-valuing the table and swinging with an enormous Army.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Necropolis Regent
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Worn Powerstone