Sauron by Soupss

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord is a Grixis reanimator/combat deck that leans heavily on the Ring tempts mechanic. The primary plan is to use Sauron's discard-and-draw trigger, along with Entomb and Frantic Search, to stock the graveyard with high-power legendaries like Smaug and the Balrogs, then reanimate them via Reanimate or Living Death. A secondary Wraith-token route is powered by Lord of the Nazgul and nine Nazgul, which grow as the Ring tempts. Sauron's role is engine: his Ward discourages removal, his amass builds an Army, and his draw-four refills the hand. No true hidden commander exists, but Sauron, the Necromancer acts as a second reanimation engine. The deck wins through big, recursive combat damage rather than infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
• 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Breaking of the Fellowship
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exhume
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
• 1 Gandalf the Grey
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
• 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1 Inherited Envelope
• 1 Island
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Languish
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 1 Mount Doom
• 4 Mountain
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Persist
• 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spiteful Banditry
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Voracious Fell Beast
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge
• 1 Wonder