Hosts of Mordor (theoretical) by edreal1221

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Sauron, the Dark Lord deck operates as a resilient Grixis Amass midrange and reanimator engine. The strategy focuses on deploying low-cost mana rocks and graveyard setup in the early turns, casting Sauron by Turn 5. Sauron punishes opposing spells by passively amassing an Orc Army and converts combat connections into massive card flow by discarding and drawing four cards with the Ring temptation mechanic. The deck translates this card advantage into decisive win conditions between Turns 6 and 8, leveraging mass reanimation spells like Living Death, army-wide menace buffs from Lord of the Nazgûl, extra combat steps via Scourge of the Throne, and aristocrat life drain through Mirkwood Bats. Sauron's punishing Ward ability and redundant reanimation targets provide high durability against spot removal, though the deck remains vulnerable to mass exile sweepers and graveyard interaction due to limited countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 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 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizard's Staff