Hosts of Mordor by officergumby

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange and reanimator strategy helmed by Sauron, Lord of the Rings. The deck focuses on pitching high-impact creature threats such as The Balrog of Moria, Cavern-Hoard Dragon, and Troll of Khazad-dûm into the graveyard using efficient cycling, looting, and self-mill spells. Early turns prioritize mana acceleration through artifacts like Arcane Signet and Relic of Sauron to reach the heavy mana requirements of its late-game engines. On Turn 6 to 7, the deck establishes a commanding board state by casting mass reanimation spells like Living Death or hard-casting Sauron, which simultaneously amasses a 5/5 Orc Army, mills five cards, and returns a massive creature to the battlefield. The deck finishes the game by attacking with trampling and menacing armies over three combat rotations. While resilient against single-target disruption due to on-cast triggers and graveyard redundancy, the strategy remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile and prolonged combat exposure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Teachings
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Ragged Short Spear
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 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 Great Goblin
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Worn Powerstone