The Forces of Mordor by Coomerang

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord leads a Grixis amass deck that builds one huge Orc Army and wins through combat. Sauron is the draw engine: each opponent spell amasses Orcs 1, and each Army combat hit tempts the Ring to discard and draw four. The deck also runs a Wraith plan with Lord of the Nazgul and nine Nazgul that grow on each tempt, plus reanimator grind with Sauron, Lord of the Rings, Sauron, the Necromancer and Living Death. Saruman, the White Hand is the hidden commander, turning every noncreature spell into Army counters and giving ward 2. The only true combo is Blasphemous Act with Fall of Cair Andros to make a lethal Army in one turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Barrow-Downs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Henneth Annûn
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Xander's Lounge