Sauron The Dark Lord - Reanimator / LOTR Heavy Theme by user9312671

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Reanimator and Midrange strategy led by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary game plan operates on two complementary axes: cheating high-impact legendary creatures and dragons into play from the graveyard, and leveraging Sauron to amass massive Orc Armies while repeatedly wheeling into fresh cards whenever an Army deals combat damage. In the early turns, cheap looting spells like Faithless Looting and Careful Study pitch game-ending threats such as Smaug the Impenetrable and Balefire Dragon into the graveyard, alongside Anger and Wonder for universal haste and evasion. Reanimation spells like Reanimate and Animate Dead deploy these threats well ahead of curve on Turn 3 or 4. Sauron provides built-in resilience through Ward and generates relentless card advantage. The deck closes the game across three combat cycles through overwhelming trampling and flying damage, backed by disruptive pieces like Notion Thief and Orcish Bowmasters to suppress opposing recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wonder