Sauron by Nopster

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis midrange build led by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The deck leverages nine copies of Nazgûl alongside mass reanimation and token sacrifice synergies to create steady table-wide pressure. In the opening turns, the deck develops its mana base using artifact ramp to cast Sauron by turn 5. Once on the battlefield, Sauron punishes opponents whenever they cast spells by amassing Orc Army tokens. When an Army connects in combat, the Ring tempts you, allowing you to discard low-value cards and draw four fresh cards each turn. This steady card flow fuels graveyard recursion through Living Death and Reanimate, while aristocrat engines like Mirkwood Bats and Blood Artist convert token creation and death triggers into direct life loss. Opponents face escalating combat threats and life drain that reliably close out the game by turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Beast of Mordor
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat