Sauron, the Dark Lord by user2700060

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord heads a Grixis amass and Ring-temptation deck. The primary plan is to cast Sauron early, use his hand-refresh trigger to stay ahead, and grow a single Army with amass effects while Nazgul and Lord of the Nazgul build a wide Wraith backup. Saruman, the White Hand acts as a hidden commander: every noncreature spell you cast amasses more Orcs. Secondary lines use All Will Be One to convert counters into direct damage, Twinflame Tyrant to double a giant Army hit, and graveyard recursion from Underworld Breach, Kess, and Living Death to grind through removal. The deck has no one-card combo; it wins by overwhelming combat or accumulating drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge