Forces of mordor by user5461053

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a midrange Grixis reanimator and control strategy built around Sauron, Lord of the Rings. It spends the early turns developing mana with artifacts and filtering cards into the graveyard using looting spells and land cycling. In the mid-to-late game, it casts its commander to trigger an uncounterable cast trigger that amasses a 5/5 Orc Army, mills five cards, and returns a high-impact creature directly to the battlefield. The deck can pivot into alternate win conditions such as Lord of the Nazgûl spellcasting swarms, Sauron, the Dark Lord army triggers, or a game-swinging Living Death. It controls the board through asymmetric draw punishers like Notion Thief and Orcish Bowmasters alongside a suite of black and red board sweepers. While lacking hyper-fast mana or hard infinite combos, the deck generates resilient combat pressure and sustained card advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 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 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 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 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Worn Powerstone