Sauron Dark Lord V2 by user5050790

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Grixis deck is built around Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging the Ring tempts you mechanic to generate massive card advantage and board presence. Sauron amasses an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells and wheels your hand into four new cards whenever an Army deals combat damage or a Ring trigger occurs. The creature base maximizes this through nine copies of Nazgûl, which grow exponentially with each Ring temptation, and Lord of the Nazgûl, which turns Wraith tokens into 9/9 threats. Discarding cards to Sauron's wheel fuels graveyard synergies, enabling blowout turns with Living Death, Rise of the Dark Realms, and Archfiend of Ifnir. Sauron's steep ward cost provides strong inherent protection against single-target removal. While the deck possesses explosive mid-game momentum, it relies on combat damage and sorcery-speed haymakers to win, with limited instant-speed interaction to disrupt fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 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 Secret Salvage
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strategic Planning
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar