The Master's Ledger by Womp_Womp

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This mono-black midrange deck leverages The Master of Lake-town alongside a dense suite of legendary Middle-earth equipment and token generators. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost creatures and Army tokens, suiting them up with powerful equipment like Andúril, Flame of the West and Andúril, Narsil Reforged, and attacking to generate swarms of evasive tokens and team-wide counters. The commander provides deathtouch defense, incidental mill on life loss, and card replenishment upon dying when graveyards are full. The deck maintains consistent mana development through a robust 39-land base and basic land fetchers, while disrupting opponents using efficient creature removal like Languish and card-draw punishment via Orcish Bowmasters. It operates reliably across the midgame, establishing critical combat pressure around Turn 7 and eliminating the table over 2 response cycles by Turn 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Along the Crooked Way
• 1 Andúril, Flame of the West
• 1 Andúril, Narsil Reforged
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Bag End Banquet
• 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
• 1 Bilbo's Ring
• 1 Bitter Downfall
• 1 Crude Bent Blade
• 1 Desolation Prowler
• 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
• 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
• 1 Dreaded Bat-Cloud
• 1 Dwarven Mattock
• 1 Elven Passage
• 1 Front Porch Sentries
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Giant's Boulder
• 1 Glamdring
• 1 Gnashing of Teeth
• 1 Gollum the Abandoned
• 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
• 1 Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
• 1 Great Fierce Bee
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Inside Information
• 1 Key to the Side-Door
• 1 Languish
• 1 Long-Bodied Grey Dog
• 1 Long-Lost Lances
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Mox Amber
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nighthowl Pursuer
• 1 Old Thrush
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Ravening Warg
• 1 Reverent Howl
• 1 Rhovanion Rampager
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Shadow of the Enemy
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sting, Bilbo's Sword
• 1 Stir Up Trouble
• 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 32 Swamp
• 1 The Black Arrow
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 Thrór's Map
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Troop of Ponies
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Well-Worn Spatula
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin